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baloonworldI've been reading Makers of the Realm a 1957 history of England. its amazing. The best thing about this is that it makes 1066 and all that funnier.
In addition, it makes occasional referance to medieval taxes, like scumage and lopage, scutage, passage and lestage. Which has led me to realise that any word can be made into a medieval tax by the addition of the suffix ~age. I've also discovered that doing this to every word spoken swiftly enrages Mili.
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In addition, it makes occasional referance to medieval taxes, like scumage and lopage, scutage, passage and lestage. Which has led me to realise that any word can be made into a medieval tax by the addition of the suffix ~age. I've also discovered that doing this to every word spoken swiftly enrages Mili.
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Date: 2009-08-27 07:50 pm (UTC)01:04 pm - Why I love the Oxford English Dictionary [protected post]
thirl-multure (Sc. Law. Obs.)
The insucken multure paid by tenants of astricted lands to the mill having the right of thirlage; also, the right to exact this multure.
(This makes perfect sense, once you know what astriction, thirlage, and multure are. Not to mention being insucken ...)
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Date: 2009-08-27 07:53 pm (UTC)