Hidage
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Hidage is a noun meaning (UK, law, obsolete or historical) A tax formerly paid to the kings of England for every hide of land.
Meaning
(UK, law, obsolete or historical) A tax formerly paid to the kings of England for every hide of land.
More Meanings
- (historical) The total area of land, measured in hides.
Example Sentences
What seems to have been a still later addition gives the hidages of Worcestershire and Warwickshire.
The moment has now come when we may tender in evidence an ancient document which professes to state the hidage of certain districts.
1898, Hannis Taylor, The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution, Part 2: The After-growth of the Constitution, In the case of the towns, to which the reckoning by hides could not be applied, the Danegeld or hidage was probably compounded for, and such composition represents no doubt the later talliage.⁴ In the ninth year of Henry II. the Danegeld as such finally disappeared from the Rolls, but only to reappear as aid or hidage, and in the reign of Richard I. as carucage.
Word Forms
- hidages
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include hydage, hidegild, hidegeld, hidation, havenage, hyde.
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