'Hidage' definitions:
Definition of 'Hidage'
From: GCIDE
- Hidage \Hid"age\, n. [From hide a quantity of land.] (O. Eng. Law.) A tax formerly paid to the kings of England for every hide of land. [Written also hydage.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'hidage'
From: GCIDE
- Tallage \Tal"lage\, Talliage \Tal"li*age\, n. [F. taillage. See Taille, and cf. Tailage.] (O. Eng. Law) A certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights, and inferior tenants, toward the public expenses. [Written also tailage, taillage.] [1913 Webster]
- Note: When paid out of knight's fees, it was called scutage; when by cities and burghs, tallage; when upon lands not held by military tenure, hidage. --Blackstone. [1913 Webster]