var. of FEUAGE, Obs.
1523. Ld. Berners, Froiss., V. ccxli. 351/2. This fowage … shulde have been well worthe every yere a xii thousand from euery fyer to have payed yerely a franke.
1529. Rastell, Pastyme, Hist. Brit. (1811), 225. One great cause that they layde agaynst prince Edwarde was, because he leueyed a fowage in Guyan, agaynst yr myndes of the lordes, where the contrey ought to be free.
1592. Wyrley, Armorie, 84.
| Wanting which a fowage was desierd | |
| To pay the soldiers for this iourney hierd. |
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. xii. § 136. The Prince of Wales had at a Parliament in Gascoigne propounded a demaund for fowage, or of money to be leuied by the Chimney.
1834. Sir H. Taylor, 1st Pt. Artevelde, II. vi.
| What were the fowage and the subsidies | |
| When bread was but four mites that’s now a groat? |
