Butlerage

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A butlerage was a duty of two shillings on every ton of wine imported into England by merchant strangers; so called because it was paid to the king's butler for the king.

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  1. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
  2. This article incorporates content from the 1728 Cyclopaedia, a publication in the public domain.


 
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