Middle English Dictionary Entry
lestāǧe n.
Entry Info
| Forms | lestāǧe n. Also lastage. |
| Etymology | ML & OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A toll paid by merchants, etc., for the privilege of trading at fairs and markets; ?also (late), exemption from payment of this toll; (b) a toll or tax paid for the privilege of loading a ship; (c) ~ fre, exempt from payment of (b); (d) the ballast of a ship.
Associated quotations
a
- [ (1176) in Madox Firma Burgi (1726)14 : Et de Lx s. de Lestagio. ]
- c1410(a1387) Legal Gloss.Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)97 : Lastage [vr. Lestage], custom i-chalanged in chepynges and in feyres.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)665/10 : They shold be quyte..fro tol and passage and pountage and stallage and lastage.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)670/19 : To be quyte (thurgh all his londe and by watir) of tol and passage, of pountage and tallage and lestage.
- a1475 Legal Gloss.Bokenham MAngl.(Hrl 4011)22 : Lestage is a custum exact yn feyrys & merkatis.
- ?a1475 Legal Gloss.Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)97 : Lestage, that is, a thynge required in feires.
- 1662(c1350) Bk.Vale Royal in LCRS 68 (Hrl 2064)136 : [And by] hydage, danegeld..lestage..[he claims that he..shall give nothing for hydage, danegeld, etc.].
b
- (1405) Doc.in Flasdieck Origurk.34 : Thei shul bene quyte of al maner of Custumez, Ankerage, Lastage, Pikage, Dryyng of nettes, in beying and sellyng of here owen wesseles..wyth jnne the hauen..of Donewych.
- (1405) Doc.in Flasdieck Origurk.35 : Ankerage, Pykage, Lastage.
c
- (1252) Chart.R.PRO1.392 : [Grant to the barons of Faveresham of quittance of toll..with sock, sac..] werkfri, witefri, lestagefri, lotoffri.
- (1401) Doc.in HMC Rep.5 App.454 : Quod habeant infangenethef et quod sint wrecfry et wittefry et lestagefry et lonecopfry.
- (1424) RParl.5.405a : Quod sint Wrecfry & Witefry, Lestagefry & Lunatofry.
d
- [ (1397-8) Statutes Realm2.108 : Le Roy..ad ordeignez & establiz que toutz maneres des Niefs au dit port acustumez..portent ovesque eux tout lour lastage des bones piers. ]
- (1408) *Acc.Exch.K.R.44/11(2).m.2 [OD col.] : Laborancium circa deieccionem del lastage dicte Nauis.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)299 : Lestage of a shyppe: Saburra.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)51a : Fraght or lastage of A shipe: saburra.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)71a : Lastage or frawght of A shipe: Saburra.
- ?a1500 Lndsb.Nominale (Lndsb)806/2 : Hec saburra, Anglice, a lastage.