The aids that the lord of the manor could demand from the inhabitants of his domain, peasants as well as vassals, were called taille and developed into the royal taille, or tallage, a direct tax levied by sovereigns. |
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From the late 13th century, when borough representatives began to be summoned to Parliament, parliamentary taxation of boroughs and of the king's estates began to be preferred to tallage. |
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In origin, both the amount and the frequency of levies was at the lord's discretion, but by the 13th century tallage on many estates had already become a fixed charge. |
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In England, from the late 12th century, tallage had become established as the name of a royal tax levied on estates in the king's possession and on boroughs. |
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