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Scutage

Scutage, a tax or contribution raised by those that held lands

It was afterward exchanged for a pecuniary satisfaction Called also scutage

Shield money commutation of service for a sum of money See Escuage

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usually commuted by payment in the form of escuage or scutage. Among the incidents of this tenure were reliefs or payments

holden; (6) of the amount of the sums paid for scutage and aid, etc., by each tenant. These volumes were printed

property, whether by tenth or fifteenths, subsidies on land, hydages, scutages, or talliages. Although generally a charge upon a landlord, yet

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