escuage
escuage noun: payment to a lord in lieu of military service.
Noun
escuage (countable and uncountable, plural escuages)
- Payment to a lord in lieu of military service.
- […] subsidies were not to be granted, nor levied in this case ; that is, for wars of Scotland : for that the law had provided another course, by service of escuage, for those journeys […]1622, Francis Bacon, Bacon's History of the Reign of King Henry VII, Cambridge University Press, published 1902, page 148
- When the escuage which was to be paid was uncertain, being more or less according to the pleasure of the king or the assessment of parliament ; then the tenure by escuage was a sort of knight′s service.1829, George Crabb, History of English Law, 1831 American Edition, page 374
Forms of escuage
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Origin of escuage
Inherited from Middle English scuage, from Old French escuage; in Modern English, remodelled on the Old French etymon.
Questions about escuage
- What does escuage mean?
- Escuage means payment to a lord in lieu of military service.
- What part of speech is escuage?
- Escuage is a noun.
- What is the plural of escuage?
- The plural of escuage is escuages.
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