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tronage|ˈtrəʊnɪdʒ| [a. AF. tronage, f. OF. trone tron: see -age.] The weighing of merchandise at the tron; a charge or toll upon goods so weighed; the right of levying such charge.[1200Rot. Chart. (1837) 35/2 Teneant predictam feriam..cum stallagio et theloneo, pesagio et tronagio, et cum omnibus aliis libertatibus. 1290Rolls of Parlt. I. 47/2 Mercatores..conqueruntur quod per deceptionem tronagii, & suptilitatem manuum ponderantium, decipiuntur de Catallis suis. 1347–8Ibid. II. 213/1 Les ditz Citeinz ount este quitz de tronage, pesage des leins, & de merces.] a1325MS. Rawl. B. 520 lf. 20 b, Þe lord king grauntez þat..of..tollage, tronage, passage, pontage..lith fram nou forth ward assise of nouele disseisine. a1500in Arnolde's Chron. (1811) 100 To tronage perteinen thoos thingis that shalbe weyen by the trone of y⊇ kyngis. 1603Stow Surv. 564 It [London] auayleth the prince in Tronage [ed. 1598 Tonnage], Poundage and other her customes, much more then all the rest of the realme. 1607Cowell Interpr., Tronage..is a kind of tolle..taken (as it seemeth) for weying. 1766Entick London (1776) I. 334 The tronage, that is to say, the weighing of lead. 1860All Year Round No. 76. 614 Here, was formerly kept the royal steelyard, or beam, for the tronage of imports. Hence ˈtronager = troner.
1885H. Hall Hist. Custom-Revenue Eng. II. vi. 123 The sacks..and the bales..were successively weighed at the ‘beam’ by a special officer, the ‘tronager’ or ‘tronour’. |