Tallage
Tallage or Talliage (from the French tailler, i.e. a part cut out of the whole) appears to have signified at first a tax in general, but became afterwards confined in England to a special form of tax, the assessment upon cities, boroughs, and royal demesnes - in effect, a land tax.Like Scutage[?], tallage was superseded by the subsifdy system in the 14th century. The last occasion on which it was levied appears to be about the year 1332. The famous statute of 25 Edw. I. (in some editions of the statutes 34 Edw. I.) De Tallagio non Concedendo, though it is printed among the statutes of the realm, and was cited as a statute in the preamble to the Petition of Right in 1627, ad by the judges in John Hampden's case in 1637, is probably an imperfect and unathoritative abstract of the Confirmatio Cartarum. The first section enacts that no tallage for aid shall be imposed or levied by the king and his heirs without the will and assent of the archbishops, bishops, and other prelates, the earls, barons, knights, burgesses, and other freemen in the kingdom. Tallagium facere was the technical term for rendering accounts in the exchequer, the accounts being kept by means of tallies or notched sticks. The tellers (a corruption of talliers) of the exchequer were at one time important financial officers. The system of keeping the national accounts by tallies was abolished by 23 Geo. III. c. 82, the office of teller by 57 Geo. II. c. 84.
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Examples gross as earth exhort me.
Led by a delicate and tender prince,
Makes mouths at the invisible event,
To all that fortune, death, and danger dare,
Is not to stir without great argument,
When honour's at the stake. How stand I then,
Excitements of my reason and my blood,
The imminent death of twenty thousand men
Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot
Which is not tomb enough and continent
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Scene V.
Gent. She is importunate, indeed distract.
Queen. What would she have?
There's tricks i' th' world, and hems, and beats her heart;
That carry but half sense. Her speech is nothing,
The hearers to collection; they aim at it,
Which, as her winks and nods and gestures yield them,
Though nothing sure, yet much unhappily.
Dangerous conjectures in ill-breeding minds.
[Exit Gentleman.]
Each toy seems Prologue to some great amiss.
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
Enter Ophelia distracted.
Oph. Where is the beauteous Majesty of Denmark?
Oph. (sings)
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