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I'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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