Butlerage

A butlerage was a duty of two shillings on every ton of wine imported into England by foreign merchants.[1][2] It was so called because it was paid to the king's butler for the king. The tax was levied from 1302 to 1809.[1]

Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article "Butlerage and Prisage".

References
  1. Dictionary of Political Economy, Volume I (Macmillan and Co, London, 1894), p. 196
  2. Henry Campbell Black, Black's Law Dictionary (Second Edition) (West Publishing Company, 1910), p. 158.

Further reading
  • Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
  • Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chambers, Ephraim, ed. (1728). "Butlerage". Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1st ed.). James and John Knapton, et al.


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