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Tallagers

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Tax or toll gatherers; mentioned by Chaucer. TALLAGIUM (perhaps from French taille, cut off). A term including all taxes.

2 Inst. 532; Stat, de tal. non Concedendo, temp. Edw. I.; Stow, Annals, 445; 1 Bl. Comm. 311*.

Chaucer has talaigiers for "tax gatherers."