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, having replaced the right of prisage by which the king took a portion of the imported wine. [1]
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Events from the year 1332 in Ireland.
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Larisa or Larissa (Λάρισσα) was a town of ancient Lydia. It was in the territory of Ephesus, on the north bank of the Caystrus, which there flowed through a most fertile district, producing an excellent kind of wine. It was situated at a distance of 180 stadia from Ephesus, and 30 from Tralles. In Strabo's time it had sunk to the rank of a village, but it was said once to have been a polis (Πόλις), with a temple of Apollo.
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