单词 | butlerage |
释义 | butleragen. 1. The office or position of butler (butler n. 2) to a monarch, nobleman, etc. (now historical and rare). Formerly also: †the department administered by this official (obsolete rare).In later use chiefly in chief butlerage, with reference to the butlerage of Ireland, a hereditary office nominally associated with the supply, import, etc., of wines (see note at butler n. 2). ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > holder of office > official of royal or great household > [noun] > in charge of food, table, or plate > position of butlerage1487 1487 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VII (Electronic ed.) Parl. Nov. 1487 §35. m. 14 Any lettres patentes by oure sovereygn lorde the kyng that nowe ys to the same John Fortescu made, of and for the botelarage or the butelershipe of Englond. 1583 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (ed. 4) II. 2090 Gilbert Sterop, deputie to Edwarde Grimstone Esquier, for his Butlerage. 1615 MS Duke of Northumberland in 3rd Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1872) 62/1 Officers of the mint, of the works, of the great wardrobe, of the butlaridge. 1736 T. Carte Hist. Life Duke Ormonde II. 219 A perquisite or appendage of the butlerage of Ireland. 1790 Public Advertiser 22 Oct. The Butlerage of Ireland, which had been in the family since the days of Henry the Second, was re-granted to him under an implied trust for his brother. 1830 W. Lynch View Legal institutions Ireland iv. 92 The Butlerage of Ireland is the most ancient hereditary dignity now enjoyed by the heirs male of any family in Great Britain. 1878 R. H. Edgar Comic Hist. Heraldry (ed. 2) xxii. 137 The Ormond family is said to have originated with one Theobald Walter, who in 1177 had the chief butlerage of Ireland conferred on him by Henry II. 1900 Weekly Irish Times 13 Oct. 13/3 The surname of Butler originated in the Chief Butlerage, which carried with it the ‘prisage’ of wines bought for the Royal Table. 1997 Times 3 Nov. 23/5 Henry II conferred the Chief Butlerage on the family. 2. A duty levied, originally by the crown, on the import of wine into England by foreign traders, and payable to the butler (butler n. 2). Frequently paired or contrasted with prisage n.1 1a (see note at that entry). Now historical.Butlerage was abolished by an act of 1809, 49 George III. c. 98, §36. 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 c1503 ( Indenture in R. Arnold Chron. f. xlv/1 For all maner other dutees botelarage costis and chargis..concernyng the said wynes. 1509–10 Act 1 Henry VIII c. 5 in Statutes of Realm (1817) III. 3 Eny other being fre of Prysage or Butlarage of Wynes. 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. 1654 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 180 22 tunnes of Wyne..to pay for ye butlerage the somme of tenn pounds. 1736 Daily Gazetteer 21 May The ancient Duties of Prisage and Butlerage, with several Remarks useful in making Entries, and compleating the Custom-House Business of Wines. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. 315 Prisage was a right of taking two tons of wine from every ship importing into England twenty tons or more; which by Edward I was exchanged into a duty of 2s. for every ton imported by merchant-strangers, and called butlerage, because paid to the king's butler. 1808 Hull Packet 12 Apr. His Lordship's right to the prisage and butlerage on all wines imported into Ireland..was affirmed. 1882 Antiquary 6 230/2 The Butlerage has no constitutional or fiscal value after the reign of Elizabeth. 1901 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Sentinel 19 Oct. 12/3 The Receiver General of the Duchy of Lancaster drew £803 as an annuity in lieu of prisage and butlerage on wines imported into the ports of that country. 1957 G. Chandler Liverpool vi. 285 In 1646, the bailiffs and water bailiffs were empowered..to seize wines from those refusing to pay butlerage. 2012 E. T. Jones Inside Illicit Econ. ix. 190 In 1552..Thomas Pope commenced an action against John White, the deputy butler in Bridgwater responsible for collecting prisage and butlerage. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > supplying food or catering > victualling department poultry1423 catery1455 achatryc1550 sutlery1636 canteen1744 commissariat1812 butlerage1815 1815 Ann. Reg. 1814 ii. Misc. 554/1 For providing..things in the Butlerage department. 1853 Fraser's Mag. 47 414 An exact account of the cost of washing, lighting, firing, of kitchen, of butlerage, of cellarage. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1487 |
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