A tax or fee historically levied on the keeping of fowl or birds; a duty paid for the right to raise poultry.
From 'fowl' combined with the suffix '-age' (state or condition of), used in medieval and early modern English administrative terminology to describe specific agrarian taxes.
Medieval towns collected fowage alongside other taxes like chimney taxes and window taxes—rules so specific and quirky that historians use them to understand everyday life centuries ago.
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