Definitionn. a charge based on weight measured in pounds
Last update: August 8, 2015
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Hundred pence poundage for a pound. [Please select]
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Money for common purposes was raised from time to time, as necessity demanded, by the imposition on Hanse merchandise of poundage dues, introduced in 1361, while the counters relied upon a small levy of like nature and upon fines to meet current needs. [Please select]
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At the same time the tonnage and poundage money was applied to the benefit of the Royal Navy. [Please select]
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_--By the great act of tonnage and poundage, passed in 1660, on the restoration of Charles II. [Please select]
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First Parliament, 1626, would grant "tonnage and poundage" for only one year. [Please select]
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He levied those duties of tonnage and poundage, and increased them as he thought fit. [Please select]
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Handicapped as he was by lack of poundage, Dublin's pet lamb made up for it by superlative skill in ringcraft. [Please select]
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But after that, all things are to go upon his Majestye's own purse out of the Tunnage and Poundage and his other revenues. [Please select]
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