Crossword-Solution: PRISAGE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Prisage | n. | A right belonging to the crown of England, of taking two tuns of wine from every ship importing twenty tuns or more, -- one before and one behind the mast. By charter of Edward I. butlerage was substituted for this. |
| Prisage | n. | The share of merchandise taken as lawful prize at sea which belongs to the king or admiral. |
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PRISAGE | anagram | GASPERI, PIGEARS |
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| Old English tax | 3 answers |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
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Sentences with PRISAGE (5)
And when Frances so openly exhibited her preference for the King's minion there would be some among those disappointed suitors who would whisper, greenly, that Rochester had been granted that prisage which was the right of the absent Essex, a right which they themselves had been quite ready to usurp.
And they be not put in any Assises, Iuries, or Recognisances by reason of their forreine tenure against their will: and that they be free of all their owne wines for which they do trauaile of our right prise, [Footnote: Prisage--one cask in ten, on wine, was the first customs-duty levied in England.] that is to say, of one tunne before the mast, and of another behind the maste.
This Lord Ormonde in 1810 [v.04 p.0881] sold to the crown for the great sum of £216,000 his ancestral right to the prisage of wines in Ireland.
One such customs due was that of "prisage," the right of taking one tun of wine from every ship importing from ten to twenty tuns, and two tuns from every ship importing more than twenty tuns.
What is established is that the "prisage" of wine or levy of one cask in ten, and the taking of one-tenth or one-fifteenth of other commodities was in force.