English Dictionary

butlerage

名詞

古語 可算名詞 不可算名詞

(law, archaic) A duty formerly paid to the king's butler on every tun of wine imported into England by foreign merchants.

日本語の意味

（法・古語）外国商人がイングランドに輸入するワイン一タンごとに、かつて王の執事に納められた関税・役務

The merchants grumbled when the butlerage was levied on every tun of imported wine, a reminder of the crown's tight control over trade.

商人たちは、輸入ワイン1トンごとに国王の執事に支払われる税が課せられると不満を漏らしたが、それは王権による貿易の厳しい統制を思い起こさせた。

意味（1）

(law, archaic) A duty formerly paid to the king's butler on every tun of wine imported into England by foreign merchants.

There is also another very antient hereditary duty belonging to the crown, called the prisage or butlerage of wines; which is considerably older than the customs, being taken notice of in the great roll of the exchequer, 8 Ric. I. still extant. Prisage was a right of taking two tons of wine from every ship importing into England twenty tons or more; which by Edward I. was exchanged into a duty of 2s for every ton imported by merchant-strangers, and called butlerage, because paid to the king's butler.

butlerages （ plural ）