Sometimes a "Tallage" payment was taken at the lord's will.
"Our Legal Heritage, 4th Ed."
S. A. Reilly
To the same for Tallage 39 pounds by one tally.
"Our Legal Heritage, 4th Ed."
S. A. Reilly
Thus at Lessingham, when the worst was over and a court was held on the 15th of January, 1350, the steward writes down that only thirty shillings was to be levied from the customary tenants by way of Tallage, "Because the greater part of those tenants who were wont to render Tallage had died in the previous year by reason of the deadly pestilence."
"The Coming of the Friars"
Augustus Jessopp