tollage
(ˈtəʊlɪdʒ)
Also 6 -adge, toullage.
[? f. toll v.3 + -age; confounded with tallage n.1]
1. = toll n.1; exaction or payment of toll.
| 1494 Fabyan Chron. vii. (1516) 27 b/2 That y⊇ Cytezyns shulde enioye the lybertyes of y⊇ Fayre euer after without paying of any Tollage [some MSS. tallage] or Tolle. 1579 in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) I. 312 The tolladge at bottle bridge off the cartes y{supt} shall carrye the sayd slate. 1591 Rutland MSS. (1905) IV. 398 Paid for swarfage and toullage, ij s. 1612 Drayton Poly-olb. xiii. 270 By Leofrick her Lord..The people from her Marts by tollage who expelld. a 1835 Certificate of Freedom of City of Norwich (MS.), Know ye, That..the Bearer hereof..is Free, and ought so to be from all kind of Tollage, Pontage, Passage, Murage [etc.] and from all other Customs in all the Sea-Ports throughout England. 1888 Pall Mall G. 24 Sept. 5/2 Carrying all at the stereotyped figure of 2s. 6d. per ton..the River Weaver Trustees charging another 1s. per ton tollage. |
† 2. = tallage n.1 Obs.
| 1551 (ed. Berthelet) Act 23 Hen. VIII, 1531–2, c. 10 §6 Taxes and Tollages [Record ed. Tallages] hereafter to be assessed and leuyed. 1583 T. Stocker Civ. Warres Lowe C. i. 17 We..will faithfully paye all taxes, tollages, customes, impostes, subsidies, tenthes. 1610 Holland Camden's Brit. i. 39 The revenewes comming by tollage and pondage and such like imposts. 1634 Malory's Arthur i. lxxxix. 155 They..put this land to great extortions and tollages [1470–85 (v. ii. 161) extorcions & taylles]. |