The King assessed a tallage [ad hoc tax] usually at ten per cent of property or income.
He rendered an account to the Crown of the shares of tallage paid by the men of the Ward and presided over the Wardmotes.
A tallage on royal towns and demesnes, nevertheless, was set without authority of parliament four years afterwards.
Hitherto the king's prerogative of levying money by name of tallage or prise from his towns and tenants in demesne had passed unquestioned.
But how can we believe that after the representatives of these cities and boroughs had sat, at least at times, for two reigns, and after the explicit renunciation of all right of tallage by Edward I.
In the latter instance the king also gave leave to the lay and spiritual nobility to set a tallage on their own tenants.
The same fact strikes us in regard totallage and aids, i.
The payment of arbitrary tallage is held during the thirteenth century to imply a servile status[322].
There are traces of a different view by which the power of imposing tallage would have been vested exclusively in the king, even when the manor to be taxed was one that had passed out of his hand[154].
Such tallage at will is not found very often in the documents, although the lord sometimes retained his prerogative in this respect even when sanctioning the customary forms of renders and services.
Before granting a writ of tallage to the Abbot of Stoneleigh in 1253, Henry III had an inquisition made as to the precedents.
This matter of tallage could certainly be treated as an alteration of services, and sent for trial to the Common Bench.
The rule was, that the new lord could not tallage his tenants unless in consequence of a royal writ, and then only at the same time and in the same proportion as the king tallaged the demesnes remaining in his hand[152].
Now and then it is mentioned that the tallage is to be levied once a year[323], although the amount remains uncertain.
The Bishop of Salisbury by a royal charter of 1304 got the right to tallage the townspeople of Salisbury, while the burghers were given municipal privileges the same as those of Winchester.
In 1305, however, the burghers, rather than pay tallage to the bishop, surrendered their municipal privileges to the King, and promised to give up to him their common seal.
In any case where the tallage was a fixed sum due from the town some one else would have to pay Margaret’s share.
The great nobility, who had consented that the king should tallage the profits of their own tenants, were not unwilling that he should tallage likewise those of an order of men whom it was much less their interest to protect.
King makes or takes tallage of his burgesses throughout England.
In 1332 a tallageof one-fifteenth was levied by Edward III.
Now and then it is mentioned that tallage is to be levied once a year although the amount remains uncertain.
The payment of arbitrary tallage is held during the thirteenth century to imply a servile status.
Such tallage at will is not very often found in documents, although the lord sometimes retained his prerogative in this respect even when sanctioning the customary form of renders and services.
In the village Plemyannikovo, Dankoff, arrears in the tallage gave rise to repeated auction sales of the peasants’ chattels.
The justiciaries appointed by the Prince to levy the tallage upon them were declared to have lost their authority; the Jews passed back to the property of the King.
We only find a tallageof one thousand pounds, with promise of exemption for three years, unless the King or his son should undertake a crusade.
Further, they say that the King can tallageall the tenants of the same manor, except those who hold by charters of Kings at their will, according to their means, when he tallage other his demesne manors.
And we will that our said customary tenants for ever be quit of tallage and view of frankpledge and all other customs and services to us or to our heirs pertaining.
Arbitrary tallage was almost invariably abolished by the town charters.
Arbitrary imposts are forbidden and any of the inhabitants who as serfs had been paying arbitrary tallage are relieved of the burden.
A statute concerning tallage not granted by Parliament.
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