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Scutage was a
medieval English tax
levied on
holders of a knight's fee
under the
feudal land
tenure of knight-service.
Under feudalism the king, through...
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feudal lord, the king had the
right to
collect scutage from the
barons who held
these honours.
Scutage (literally
shield money, from escutcheon) was a...
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involved guarding a
nearby castle for a
specified number of days per year. by
scutage where the
military service obligations had been commuted, or replaced,...
- late
medieval period, knight-service came to be
replaced by the
tenure of
scutage,
under which tenants paid tax ****essed
according to
their knight's fee...
- need in wartime. Its main
purpose was for ****essing how much
scutage the king was owed.
Scutage was used to pay for mercenaries,
which were an
important part...
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included personal service,
providing troops (raising levies), and
later scutage (a payment) in lieu of service.
Military duties also
included work on fortifications...
- rent was payable,
although military service was
later transformable into
scutage. A
knight was
required to
maintain the
dignity of knighthood,
which meant...
- Parliament's
consent to the
imposition of
common charges became required. Like
scutage,
tallage was su****ded by
various property and
trade taxes, and then the...
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escuage (i.e.
scutage). By the time of
Henry III, as
Bracton states, the test of
tenure was
scutage; liability,
however small, to
scutage payment made...
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though liable to the
feudal exactions of wardship, etc., were not
liable to
scutage; they made in
place of this
exaction special composition with the Crown...
