Old Law. (erron. spelt carvage). [a. ONF. caruage, in mod.F. charruage, on L. type *carrūcāticum; but actually made in med.L. carrucāgium, and car(r)uāgium.]

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  1.  Plowing.

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1610.  W. Folkingham, Art of Survey, I. vii. 14. This Deluage is distinguishable into Caruage and Scaphage. Caruage comprehends all sorts of plowing of Grounds. Ibid., x. 24. Crust-clung and Soale-bound soyles craue Caruage.

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1688.  R. Holme, Armoury, III. 333/2. Carvage is Plowing of Ground.

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  2.  = CARUCAGE.

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  [1664.  Spelman, Gloss., 126. Carucagium, alias caruagium, est tributi genus quod singulis aratris … imponitur.]

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  1610.  Folkingham, Art of Survey, III. iv. 71. Infeoffing with Toll, implies Freedome from Custome, &c.
  With Caruage, from taxation by Carues.

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1641.  Termes de la Ley, 47 b. A priviledge by which a man is freed from Carvage.

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1670.  Blount, Law Dict., s.v. Carrucate.

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1700.  Tyrrell, Hist. Eng., II. 711. The late unreasonable Carvage or Tax in his Diocese.

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1846.  Dugdale’s Monast., III. 103/1. He desired the convent to lend him their annual carucatage, carucagium, or carvage.

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