History for ready reference, Volume 5, Tunnage to Zyp and SupplementLarned, J. N. (Josephus Nelson)
History
History for ready reference, Volume 5, Tunnage to Zyp and Supplement
Larned, J. N. (Josephus Nelson)
History -- Dictionaries
Maps of the United States in 1783, in 1790, in 1803, in 1840,
and in 1860,
To follow page 3326.
Map of the principal theatre Of war in Virginia, 1861-1865,
To follow page 3434.
Map of the Vicksburg Campaign,
On page 3490.
Map of the Battle-field of Gettysburg,
On page 3501.
Map of the Battle-field of Chattanooga,
On page 3511.
Map of the Atlanta Campaign,
On page 3531.
SUPPLEMENT.
"Abelard" to "Wheatstone,"
Pages 3669 to 3811.
Chronology of important and indicative events,
Pages 3812 to 3856.
Lineage of European Sovereigns and great historical families,
Pages 3857 to 3883.
Selected Bibliography,
Pages 3885 to 3909.
List of works from which passages have been quoted
in "History for Ready Reference and Topical Reading,"
Pages 3910 to 3985.
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TUNNAGE AND POUNDAGE.
A tax or custom of two shillings on the tun of wine and
sixpence on the pound of merchandise, which became, in
England, from the fourteenth century, one of the regular
parliamentary grants to the crown, for a long period. It grew
out of an agreement with the merchants in the time of Edward
II., to take the place of the former right of prisage; the
right, that is, to take two tuns of wine from every ship
importing twenty tuns or more,—one before and one behind the
mast.
_W. Stubbs,
Constitutional History of England,
chapter 17, sections 276-277 (volume 2)._
See, also, ENGLAND: A. D. 1629.
TUPI, The.
See AMERICAN ABORIGINES: TUPI.
TUPUYAS, The.
See AMERICAN ABORIGINES: TUPI, ETC.
TURAN.
"The old Persians, who spoke an Aryan tongue, called their own
land Iran, and the barbarous land to the north of it they
called Turan. In their eyes, Iran was the land of light, and
Turan was the land of darkness. From this Turan, the land of
Central Asia, came the many Turkish settlements which made
their way, first into Western Asia and then into Europe."
_E. A. Freeman,
The Ottoman Power in Europe,
chapter 2._
TURANIAN RACES AND LANGUAGES.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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