tallage \tal"lage\, talliage \tal"liage\, n. f. taillage. see
   taille, and cf. tailage. o. eng. law
   a certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights, and inferior
   tenants, toward the public expenses. written also tailage,
   taillage.
   1913 webster

   note: when paid out of knight's fees, it was called
         scutage; when by cities and burghs, tallage; when
         upon lands not held by military tenure, hidage.
         --blackstone.
         1913 webster
see also:
taille tailage tailage taillage scutage tallage 
hidage