Middle English Dictionary Entry
pǒuntāǧe n.
Entry Info
| Forms | pǒuntāǧe n. Also pontage. |
| Etymology | AF & AL |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A tax or toll levied for the repair of bridges.
Associated quotations
- [ (1251) Cart.Ramsey in RS 79.1296 : Tenentes sui dant cum villata ad auxilium vicecomitis, wardepeny, pontagium, wodehac. ]
- [ (1302) RParl.1.155a : Prient les gentz..qe nostre Seigneur le Roi les voille granter pountage par cink anns. ]
- [ (1403) Pet.Hen.IV in BGAS 1858 : Leur heirs..soient ffraunkes et quites..de tolne, pontage, passage, pannage. ]
- (1391) Acc.Exped.Der.in Camd.n.s.527/17 : Johanni Waterman et sociis suis pro pountage apud Douere, vj s. viij d.
- (1447) *Ordin.Exch.(PRO) [OD col.]35.c.62(b).A.v : For euerye viewe of customers of Tonnage and pontage and pety custome of London and Bystowe.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)659/12 : Henry, kyng of Englond..charged that the mynchons of Godestowe and all ther goodis..shold be quyte fro tol, passage, and pountage.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)670/18 : He..charged that the forsaid Abbesse..be quyte, thurgh all his londe and by watir, of tol and passage, of pountage and tallage and lestage.