Escuage

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  • n. Payment to a lord in lieu of military service.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Service of the shield, a species of knight service by which a tenant was bound to follow his lord to war, at his own charge. It was afterward exchanged for a pecuniary satisfaction. Called also scutage.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In later feudal law, a commutation paid by feudal tenants in lieu of military service; scutage.
    • Word Usage
    "Other taxes were raised from escuage, fees for knights’ service, and by other means arising out of the feudal system."
    Variant
    scutage   
     
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