hidage Obs. exc. Hist.
(ˈhaɪdɪdʒ)
[ad. med.Anglo-L. hīdāgium, f. hīda hide n.2: see -age.]
1. A tax payable to the royal exchequer, assessed at a certain quota for each hide of land.
| a 1195 Charter Hen. I in Wetheral Reg. (1897) 29 Terræ..quiete de placitis.. et geldis et danegeldis et hidagiis et assisis. 1425 in Kennett Par. Antiq. II. 249 Cum hidagio hoc anno. 1480 Caxton Descr. Brit. 21 Hidage, taillage for hydes of londe. 1607 Cowell Interpr., Hidage. 1613–18 Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. 136 (D.) All the king's supplies made from the very beginning of his raigne..Carucage, Hydage, Escuage, Escheates, Amercements, and such like. 1614 Selden Titles Hon. 270 The Aides taken in the infancie of the Norman State here was Hydage. 1765 Blackstone Comm. I. viii. 310 Of the same nature with scutages upon knights-fees were the assessments of hydage upon all other lands, and of talliage upon cities and burghs. |
2. The assessed value or measurement of lands, on which this tax was levied; cf. hidation.
| 1862 Collect. Archæol. I. 12 In many cases the manors are found to have retained their reputed hidage. 1883 F. Seebohm Eng. Vill. Commun. 38 The estimate thus given of the hidage of a manor. |