gate-tax

Updated: June 24, 2025

Even the stolid faces of the plodding peasants, fresh past the gate-tax and bound for the markets to seek what little there remained after giving to the king, bore an unwonted look, as though hope might yet succeed to their surprise. "Ohé! Marie," called one stout dame to another, who stood smiling in her doorway near by. "See the fine coach coming.

Emerson Hough - The Mississippi Bubble