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CIDE DICTIONARY

talliage, n. [F. taillage. See Taille, and cf. Tailage.].

A certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights, and inferior tenants, toward the public expenses. [1913 Webster]

" When paid out of knight's fees, it was called scutage; when by cities and burghs, tallage; when upon lands not held by military tenure, hidage." Blackstone. [1913 Webster]