escuage

Example sentences from the Web for escuage

• Amid the obligations was that of escuage, by which the price of a knight's fee should be paid every year.

  Sir Nigel |Arthur Conan Doyle

• Their feudal service was now commuted for an escuage, which fell very short of the expenses incurred in a protracted campaign.

  View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 (of 3) |Henry Hallam

• Soone after whose arriuall, escuage was gathered through the realme towards the bearing of the kings charges.

  Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (8 of 12) |Raphael Holinshed

• When the custom of escuage arose is a matter which no antiquarian researches have settled.

  The History of Chivalry, Volume I (of 2) |Charles Mills