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peage

English

Etymology

From French

Noun

peage (plural peages)

  1. archaic: toll for passage
  2. Alternative form of pedage

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pedage

English

Etymology

From Latin pedagium, for pedaticum.

Noun

pedage (countable and uncountable, plural pedages)

  1. (obsolete) A toll or tax paid by passengers travelling through a specific place, entitling them to safe conduct and protection.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Spelman to this entry?)
    • 1784, Francis Grose, The Antiquities of England and Wales, Volume 6, page 99,
      He[Richard III] also excused them from danegeld, aids, scutage, or a tax of 40/s. payable out of every knight's fee; pontage, or a toll for the reparation of bridges; pedage, or money collected from foot passengers for passing through a forest or county; carriage, tolls for repairing of castles or cleaning of fosses; stallage, or a fee paid for erecting stalls in a fair or market; and talliage, or taxes in general; forbidding every man from arresting any person within their premisses, without license from the abbott and convent.
    • 1814, John Britton (editor), The History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Salisbury, page 26,
      This charter specifies that "New Saresbury" shall be for ever a free city, enclosed with ditches, or trenches; that the citizens shall be quit throughout the land of toll, pontage, passage, pedage, lastage, stallage, carriage, and all other customs; [] .
    • 1819, "Pedage", entry in Abraham Rees (editor), The Cyclopædia: Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature, Volume 26, unnumbered page,
      Pedage is u?ually levied for the repairing of roads, bridges, and cau?eways, the paving of ?treets, &c. Anciently, tho?e who had the right of pedage were to keep the roads ?ecure, and an?wer for all robberies committed on the pa??engers between ?un and ?un; [] .

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