[a. AF. tronage, f. OF. trone TRON: see -AGE.] The weighing of merchandise at the tron; a charge or toll upon goods so weighed; the right of levying such charge.
[1200. Rot. Chart. (1837), 35/2. Teneant predictam feriam … cum stallagio et theloneo, pesagio et tronagio, et cum omnibus aliis libertatibus.
1290. Rolls of Parlt., I. 47/2. Mercatores … conqueruntur quod per deceptionem tronagii, & suptilitatem manuum ponderantium, decipiuntur de Catallis suis. Ibid. (1347–8), II. 213/1. Les ditz Citeinz ount este quitz de tronage, pesage des leins, & de merces.]
a. 1325. MS. Rawl. B. 520, lf. 20 b. Þe lord king grauntez þat … of … tollage, tronage, passage, pontage … lith fram nou forth ward assise of nouele disseisine.
a. 1500. in Arnolde’s Chron. (1811), 100. To tronage perteinen thoos thingis that shalbe weyen by the trone of ye kyngis.
1603. Stow, Surv., 564. It [London] auayleth the prince in Tronage [ed. 1598 Tonnage], Poundage and other her customes, much more then all the rest of the realme.
1607. Cowell, Interpr., Tronage … is a kind of tolle … taken (as it seemeth) for weying.
1766. Entick, London (1776), I. 334. The tronage, that is to say, the weighing of lead.
1860. All Year Round, No. 76. 614. Here, was formerly kept the royal steelyard, or beam, for the tronage of imports.
Hence Tronager = TRONER.
1885. H. Hall, Hist. Custom-Revenue Eng., II. vi. 123. The sacks … and the bales … were successively weighed at the ‘beam’ by a special officer, the ‘tronager’ or ‘tronour.’
