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Definition of Fumage
1. n. Hearth money.
Definition of Fumage
1. Noun. hearth tax ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fumage
1. hearth-tax [n -S]
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Literary usage of Fumage
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1. A History of Taxation and Taxes in England from the Earliest Times to the by Stephen Dowell (1888)
"fumage. ANCIENT BRITAIN may be regarded as beyond the range of fiscal history.
If anything resembling taxation in our modern sense of the term existed, ..."
2. A History of Taxation and Taxes in England: From the Earliest Times to the by Stephen Dowell (1884)
"fumage. IN the course of the Teutonic settlement in the island and the Anglo-Saxon
period that follows, many institutions were established which have a ..."
3. Rolls of the Assizes Held in the Channel Islands in the Second Year of the by Channel Islands Courts, Gervaise Le Gros, Channel Islands (1903)
"The fumage of the said parish is worth one year with another 8 livres. And when
the fumage is collected the Prior of the Islet is wont to come to the castle ..."
4. Wharton's Law-lexicon: Forming an Epitome of the Law of England; and by John Jane Smith Wharton, John Mounteney Lely (1892)
"See fumage. Fuer, flight. It is of two kinds: (1) fuer in fait or in facto ...
Act, 1881. Fullum aquae, a fleam or stream of water. fumage ..."
5. A Concise Law Dictionary by Mozley, Herbert Newman, 1838-, George Crispe Whiteley (1876)
"... or fumage. An imposition for fires, laid by the Black Prince upon the subjects
of the ... fumage. ..."
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