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Butlerage
Webster's Dictionary
(n.) A duty of two shillings on every tun of wine imported into England by merchant strangers; - so called because paid to the king's butler for the king.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Butlerage'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/b/butlerage.html. 1828.