Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A prizing; rating; valuing.
- noun In early Eng. and French law, a seizure or asserted right of seizure by way of exaction or requisition for the use of the crown.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A right belonging to the crown of England, of taking two tuns of wine from every ship importing twenty tuns or more, -- one before and one behind the mast. By charter of Edward I. butlerage was substituted for this.
- noun The share of merchandise taken as lawful prize at sea which belongs to the king or admiral.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun law, UK, obsolete A
right belonging to thecrown ofEngland , of taking twotuns ofwine from everyship importing twenty tuns or more: one before and one behind themast . - noun obsolete The
share ofmerchandise taken aslawful prize atsea which belongs to theking oradmiral .
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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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.
The Corporation of London, Its Rights and Privileges William Ferneley Allen
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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
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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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.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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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.
She Stands Accused 1935
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(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.
chained_bear commented on the word prisage
"All of these (wines) were made even more expensive by the two casks from each imported cargo that were forfeit to the King as prisage, or duty."
--Kate Colquhoun, Taste: The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking (NY: Bloomsbury, 2007), 78
January 8, 2017