Butlerage Explained

A butlerage was a duty of two shillings on every ton of wine imported into England by foreign merchants.^{[1] [2]} It was so called because it was paid to the king's butler for the king. The tax was levied from 1302 to 1809.^[1]

Further reading

• Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Notes and References

1. Dictionary of Political Economy, Volume I (Macmillan and Co, London, 1894), p. 196
2. Henry Campbell Black, Black's Law Dictionary (Second Edition) (West Publishing Company, 1910), p. 158.