hidagen.
/ˈhʌɪdɪdʒ/ Obsolete exc. Historical.
1. A tax payable to the royal exchequer, assessed at a certain quota for each hide of land.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > types of tax > [noun] > land tax > types of land tax
hidegelda1087
tenmantalec1135
hidagea1195
penny-gavel1440
ground-annual1551
hide-money1570
carucage1577
scat1577
caruage1610
agistment1632
geld levy1878
a1195 Charter Hen. I in Wetheral Reg. (1897) 29 Terræ..quiete de placitis.. et geldis et danegeldis et hidagiis et assisis.
1425 in Kennett Par. Antiq. II. 249 Cum hidagio hoc anno.
1480 W. Caxton Descr. Brit. 21 Hidage, taillage for hydes of londe.
1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Mm2/2 Hidage..is an extraordinarie taxe, to be paide for euery hide of land.
1613–18 S. Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. 136 All the king's supplies made from the very beginning of his raigne..Carucage, Hydage, Escuage, Escheates, Amercements, and such like.
1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 270 The Aides taken in the infancie of the Norman State here was Hydage.
1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. viii. 310 Of the same nature with scutages upon knights-fees were the assessments of hydage upon all other lands, and of talliage upon cities and burghs.
2. The assessed value or measurement of lands, on which this tax was levied; cf. hidation n.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of area > [noun] > a system or process of measuring land > hide > measurement by hides
hidage1862
hidation1878
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > types of tax > [noun] > land tax > types of land tax > assessment of or valuation for
hidage1862
hidation1878
1862 Collectanea Archæologica I. 12 In many cases the manors are found to have retained their reputed hidage.
1883 F. Seebohm Eng. Village Community 38 The estimate thus given of the hidage of a manor.
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