[f. CONSUL + -AGE. Godefroy has OF. consulaige in sense of ‘consulate’ (of Brutus).]
1. Consular charge or dues.
1599. Hakluyt, Voy., II. I. 176, marg. Other smal customs you pay besides … for Consullage you pay two in the hundred.
1727. A. Hamilton, New Acc. E. Ind., II. xxxiii. 18. The Company’s Revenues … rise from Ground-rents and Consulage on all Goods imported and exported by British Subjects.
1753. Hanway, Trav. (1762), I. I. viii. 41, note. The charge of consulage, etc. on the Portugal trade.
1808. A. Parsons, Trav., vii. 157. All goods brought in English ships pay a duty and consulage to the East India Company.
† 2. = CONSULATE 4. Obs. rare.
1672. Evelyn, Diary, 8 Nov. At Council we debated the buisinesse of the Consulage of Leghorne. [So MS. and ed. 1819; edd. 1850, 1857, consulate.]
