Feudal Syst. (Also 6 charugage.) [ad. med.L. car(r)ūcāgium (= ONF. caruage, F. charruage), f. med.L. carrūca plow. (If of Latin age, the type would have been *carrūcāticum; but the word was of later origin, after F. -age, med.L. -āgium, had become familiar formatives: see -AGE.)]
A tax levied on each plow or carucate of land.
1577. Holinshed, Chron., John, an. 1200 (R.). The dutie called charugage, that was, three shillings of euerie plough-land.
1592. Stow, Annals, 271. The same time King Henry [III.] tooke Carucage, that is two Marks of Silver of every Knights Fee, towards the Marriage of His Sister Isabell to the Emperour.
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. ix. 68. After the taking of Bedford, he had Carrucage, that is, two shillings vpon euery Ploughland.
1700. Tyrrell, Hist. Eng., II. 851. The King had granted him … a Carucage of Two Shillings on each Plough-Land.
1875. Stubbs, Const. Hist., I. xi. 382. [Danegeld] was in very nearly the same form reproduced under the title of Carucage by the ministers of Richard I.
