单词 | prisage |
释义 | prisagen.1 Now historical. 1. a. An ancient duty levied upon imported wine, in later times correlated to and often identified with butlerage (butlerage n. 2).Abolished 1809 by 49 Geo. III. c. 98 §35. For the nature of the duty, its changes, and its relation to butlerage n., see Hubert Hall Hist. Customs (1885) II. 90 et seq. ‘The “Butlerage” was..the commutation of the prizage into a petty custom, and was paid only by foreigners who consequently paid no prizage. Prizage was the ancient toll in kind retained for choice by natives, who therefore paid no butlerage, as it was afterwards called’ (H. Hall in Antiquary (1882) VI. 230/2). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > [noun] > on imported goods > on wine imported tonnage1422 butleragec1503 prisage1505 1505 Instr. Henry VII to Ambassadors in Facsimiles National MSS (1865) I. 71 Rec. of William Spencer for buttlerage & prisage of the porte of Ippyswiche Cxij s. vj d. 1588–9 Act 31 Eliz. c. 5 §4 Any Offence..committed..for the concealinge or defraudinge the Quenes Majestie..of any Custome Tonnage Pondage Subsidie Ymposte or Prisage. 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Eee4 Prisage of Wines,..is a word almost out of vse, now called Butlerage, it is a custome wherby the prince chalengeth out of euery barke loaden with wine, containing lesse then forty tunne, two tunne of wine at his price. 1655 Cal. State Papers, Domest. (1882) 46 Your late Declaration reviving the Act for Prizage of Wines will ruin us unless suspended. 1682 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 230 They have a right by prescription to appoint and alter markets in the said citty [sc. London], and to ascertain tolls and prisages therein. 1736 T. Carte Hist. Life Duke Ormonde II. 219 The Marquis [of Ormond] did not esteem any part of his revenue so much as he did that which arose from the prisage of wines. 1783 Edinburgh Advertiser 11 July 1/3 He would as soon contend to take away from..the latter the estate of Euston, which he had acquired by marriage; as his grant of prizage on wines. 1821 J. Smyth Pract. of Customs (ed. 2) ii. 277 Wine entered for prisage; of the Cape of Good Hope; in a British-built Ship, the tun 12 19 0; in a Foreign Ship, the tun 14 0 0. 1882 H. Hall in Antiquary 6 231/1 The primary meaning of the term prizage—viz. that the Crown took prizable wines at its own price. 1934 Econ. Hist. Rev. 5 122 The annual cost of the war was about twenty times the revenue from wine imports and prisage. 1999 B. T. Hudson in B. Smith Brit. & Ireland ii. 61 The right to collect the wine prisage which in 1192 had been set at 2 butts of wine worth 20 shillings each from all ships carrying more than 2 tuns of wine. ΚΠ ?c1525 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 292 The commene wyne callid prisage. ΚΠ 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Eee4v/1 Prisage, seemeth to be that custome or share, that belongeth to the King out of such merchandize, as are taken at sea, by way of lawfull prize, anno 31 Eliz. cap. 5. 1670 T. Blount Νομο-λεξικον: Law-dict. Prisage, is that Custom or Share, that belongs to the King, or Lord Admiral, out of such Merchandises as are taken at Sea, by way of lawfull Prize, which is usually a Tenth part. 1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon 545/1 Prisage,..also, that share that belongs to the Sovereign or admiral out of such merchandizes as are taken at sea, by way of lawful prize. Compounds prisage fund n. ΚΠ 1902 Daily Chron. 25 Oct. 7/5 The Prisage Fund is, I believe, now represented by real estate—about 3,020 acres, producing a present gross rental of £2,597 per annum, the net rental being £2,126. 1971 Times 15 Feb. 12/6 The Prisage Fund derives from Charles II's grants of the prisage and butlerage (broadly the duty) on wines imported into England. ΚΠ 1619 in New-Eng. Historical & Geneal. Reg. (1893) 47 128 I give unto my daughter..one sixteenth part of the ‘prysadge’ lease and unto my son..the other sixteenth part of the same prysadge lease I now hold. ΚΠ 1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 139/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II Also that they haue the prisage wines and the iurisdiction of the admeraltie, within the limits of the said riuer. ?c1663 B. Whitelocke Diary (1990) 576 Resolution of the House that prizage wines ought to pay no Customes. 1711 W. Paule & C. Clitheroe in Writ of Error in Parl.: Plaintiffs Case 1 These Prisage Wines are a Custom in their own Nature, and 'tis incongruous to have a Custom out of a Custom. 1793 R. Warner Topogr. Remarks S.W. Hampshire I. vi. 265 The same king grants in the 20th year of his reign, to the abbey of Beaulieu, one ton of prisage wine, to be delivered between Christmas and Candlemas. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † prisagen.2 Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. Valuation, appraisement. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > monetary value > [noun] > estimated value valuation1535 estimation1551 prisage1611 appraised value1667 appraisement1703 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Prisage, a prisage, prising, praising, rating, valuing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.11505n.21611 |
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