scawage (1402)

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scawage (1402)

[gdw]

[ FEW: 17,56a schouwen; Gdf: 3,358b escauwage; GdfC: ; TL: ; DEAF: ; DMF:  escauwage; TLF: ; OED:  scavage n.; MED:  scauage n.; DMLBS: 2958a scavagium ]
schawage  
ls(loanword: M.E. )
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1 tax merch. scavage, custom levied on goods displayed for sale by foreign merchants within the precincts of a town
( 1402 )  la vient un Estephene Brunne, nadgairs fermer as certeines viscontz du dite citee de la custume appellé schawage, et demande des ditz merchantz la dite custume de schawage de lour ditz merchandises issint amesnez a la dite citee de Londres par terre [...]. Porceo qe le roi ad entenduz qe la custume appellé scawage n'est contenuz en especial en la chartre de confirmacioun faite et grantez par nostre seignur le roy as citeins de Londres [...]  iii 491
( MS: 1419 )  Scawage doit estre prys des merchaundises qi veignent en la citee  226
escawinge  escawinger  scawageour  scawinge 
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