a. Now Hist. Also 6–7 taillable. [a. OF. taillable (13th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), f. tailler, TAIL v.2; assimilated to TALLY v.] Subject to tallage, liable to be ‘tailed’ or taxed.
[1321–2. Rolls of Parlt., I. 410/1. Qe lur tenaunz … ne scient geldables ne taillables.]
1531. in W. H. Turner, Select. Rec. Oxford (1880), 98. They be tallyable with the Burgesses. Ibid. (1575), 371. Persons … talliable with scotte, lotte, and other charges as like occupiers.
1554. Wotton, Lett., 29 July, in State Pap. Mary, Foreign, IV. 193 (P.R.O.). The king [of France] pronounced their sentences … somme … to be degraded from their nobilite … they were … pronounced to be taillable as anye other villaine.
1600. Holland, Livy, XXXV. xvi. 897. Having … been made tributarie and taillable, he chalengeth of them the auncient rights & duties due from them.
1720. Strype, Stow’s Surv., II. V. xxvii. 359/2. They understood, that they of the City of London were not talliable.
1759. Hurd, Dialogues (1760), 270. The great towns and cities that before were royal demesnes, part of the king’s private patrimony, and talliable by him at pleasure.
