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BUTLERAGE AND PRISAGE

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 888 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BUTLERAGE AND PRISAGE . In See also:

England there was an See also:ancient right of the See also:crown to See also:purveyance or pre-emption, i.e. the right of buying up provisions and other necessities for the royal See also:household, at a valuation, even without the consent of the owner. Out of this right originated probably that of taking customs, in return for the See also:protection and See also:maintenance of the ports and harbours. One such customs due was that of " prisage," the right of taking one See also:tun of See also:wine from every See also:ship importing from ten to twenty tuns, and two tuns from every ship importing more than twenty tuns. This right of prisage was commuted, by a See also:charter of See also:Edward I. (1302), into a See also:duty of two shillings on every tun imported by See also:merchant strangers, and termed " See also:butler-See also:age," because paid to the See also:king's butler. Butlerage ceased to be levied in 1809, by the Customs Consolidation See also:Act of that See also:year.

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