tax
merch.
scavage, custom levied on goods displayed for sale by foreign merchants within the precincts of a town:
(
c.1216-20;
MS: 1419
)
Ceaux sount les custumes de Smythefelde – De chescune vache ou boef venduz surannez [...] .j. denier. [...] Et si le baillif prent boef ou vache pur le scawange del champ
Lib Alb 234
(
MS: 1419
)
Et fait assavoir qe 'scawenge' est dit come 'demonstraunce' pur ceo qe y covient qe marchauntz demonstrent as Viscountz marchaundises des queux deit estre pris custume, einz qe riens de ceo soit vendue
Lib Alb 223
[scawinge] (c.1216-20)