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lawtaxscot-ale, drinking feast or gathering organized by a manorial or municipal official for which a compulsory contribution of money or grain was exacted towards the ale:
(
1278-79
)
La ou la chartre dit ke nul forester ne bedel ne face escotale [...] la veynent les foresters en aust et quillent tute manere de blé [...] e dunkes il funt lur cerveyse [...] e ceus ke la ne veynent beyvre (ed. beyure) e donent deners [...] malement sunt punys
Forest Pleas 126
escotale (1278-79)