Tallage
Tallage , noun
[French taillage. See Taille, and compare Tailage.]
(O. Eng. Law) A certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights, and inferior tenants, toward the public expenses.
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.
Also: Talliage
Tallage , transitive verb
To lay an impost upon; to cause to pay tallage.