"Hydage" Quotes from Famous Books
... nature with scutages upon knights-fees were the assessments of hydage upon all other lands, and of talliage upon cities and burghs[h]. But they all gradually fell into disuse, upon the introduction of subsidies, about the time of king Richard II and king Henry IV. These were a tax, not immediately ... — Commentaries on the Laws of England - Book the First • William Blackstone |