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fowage
var. of feuage, Obs.
1523Ld. 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. 1529Rastell Pastyme, Hist. Brit. (1811) 225 He levyed a fowage in Guyan agaynst the myndes of the lordes. 1592W. Wyrley Armorie 84 Wanting which a fowage was desierd To pay the soldiers for this iourney hierd. 1611Speed 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. 1834Sir 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? |