Prisage

Word PRISAGE
Character 7
Hyphenation pris age
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The word "prisage" in example sentences

One such customs due was that of "prisage," the right of taking one tun of wine from every ship importing from ten to twenty tuns, and two tuns from every ship importing more than twenty tuns. ❋ Various (N/A)

In like manner the Duke of Grafton was indemnified in 1806 for loss incurred through the resumption of the "prisage and butlerage" of wines; nor was Lord Gwydir permitted to suffer by the compulsory surrender of his lease in the mooring-chains. ❋ William Ferneley Allen (N/A)

This right of prisage was commuted, by a charter of Edward I. (1302), into a duty of two shillings on every tun imported by merchant strangers, and termed ❋ Various (N/A)

This Lord Ormonde in 1810 [v. 04 p. 0881] sold to the crown for the great sum of £216,000 his ancestral right to the prisage of wines in Ireland. ❋ Various (N/A)

And when Frances so openly exhibited her preference for the King's minion there would be some among those disappointed suitors who would whisper, greenly, that Rochester had been granted that prisage which was the right of the absent Essex, a right which they themselves had been quite ready to usurp. ❋ Unknown (1935)

(6 March, 1327) with the assent of parliament, expressly forbade the king’s purveyors taking goods contrary to the will and pleasure of the citizens, except for cash; and no prisage of wines was thenceforth to be taken under any consideration. — _Cf. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

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