Also 6 -adge, toullage. [? f. TOLL v.3 + -AGE; confounded with TALLAGE sb.1]

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  1.  = TOLL sb.1; exaction or payment of toll.

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1494.  Fabyan, Chron., VII. (1516), 27 b/2. That ye Cytezyns shulde enioye the lybertyes of ye Fayre euer after without paying of any Tollage [some MSS. tallage] or Tolle.

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1579.  in Willis & Clark, Cambridge (1886), I. 312. The tolladge at bottle bridge off the cartes yt shall carrye the sayd slate.

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1591.  Rutland MSS. (1905), IV. 398. Paid for swarfage and toullage, ij s.

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1612.  Drayton, Poly-olb., xiii. 270. By Leofrick her Lord … The people from her Marts by tollage who expelld.

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a. 1835.  Certificate of Freedom of City of Norwich (MS.). Know ye, That … the Bearer hereof … is Free, and ought so to be from all kind of Tollage, Pontage, Passage, Murage [etc.] and from all other Customs in all the Sea-Ports throughout England.

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1888.  Pall Mall G., 24 Sept., 5/2. Carrying all at the stereotyped figure of 2s. 6d. per ton … the River Weaver Trustees charging another 1s. per ton tollage.

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  † 2.  = TALLAGE sb.1 Obs.

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1557.  (ed. Berthelet) Act 23 Hen. VIII., 1531–2, c. 10 § 6. Taxes and Tollages [Record ed. Tallages] hereafter to be assessed and leuyed.

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1583.  Stocker, Civ. Warres Lowe C., I. 17. We … will faithfully paye all taxes, tollages, customes, impostes, subsidies, tenthes.

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1610.  Holland, Camden’s Brit., I. 39. The revenewes comming by tollage and pondage and such like imposts.

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1634.  Malory’s Arthur, I. lxxxix. 155. They … put this land to great extortions and tollages [1470–85 (V. ii. 161) extorcions & taylles].

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