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How to use scutage in a sentence

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It was normally possible to make a payment, known as scutage or shield money, in place of performing feudal military service.
They were also different, at least in origin, from scutage, which was a payment in lieu of military service by a feudal tenant.
By the 13th cent. the arrangements were unravelling as lords increasingly paid scutage rather than perform knight service and vassals tried to commute their own obligations.
Most of the head tenants and some of the under tenants held on condition of knight service, later commuted into a money payment in lieu of service called scutage.
Thus the scutage was introduced, whereby most Englishmen paid to escape their service and this money was used to create a permanent army.
John levied scutage payments eleven times in his seventeen years as king, as compared to eleven times in total during the reign of the preceding three monarchs.
Examples from Classical Literature
It is clear that he consented to levy the scutage, raised on the whole realm, on ecclesiastical as well as secular property.
The owner of every knight's fee was to pay a sum of money known as scutage in lieu of service.
For the first and only time in his life he brought to England the mercenaries who were paid with the scutage money.
This tax was called the scutage, and amounted to three pounds English, or forty Angevin shillings, for each knight's fee.
Danegeld and scutage and feudal aids fastened only on the land.
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