fowage
var. of feuage, Obs.
| 1523 Ld. Berners Froiss. V. ccxli. 351/2 This fowage..shulde have been well worthe every yere a xii thousand from euery fyer to have payed yerely a franke. 1529 Rastell Pastyme, Hist. Brit. (1811) 225 He levyed a fowage in Guyan agaynst the myndes of the lordes. 1592 W. Wyrley Armorie 84 Wanting which a fowage was desierd To pay the soldiers for this iourney hierd. 1611 Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xii. §136 The Prince of Wales had..propounded a demaund for fowage, or of money to be leuied by the Chimney. 1834 Sir H. Taylor 1st Pt. Artevelde ii. vi, What were the fowage and the subsidies When bread was but four mites that's now a groat? |