Right of Prisage (Levy on Wine Imports) for Ireland, granted to Butlers (Earls of Ormond), 1319 bought out by British Government after Act of Union 1800 for £216,000 (c €20 million)

http://www.galway.net/galwayguide/history/hardiman/chapter4/wine2.html

http://www.kilkennycastle.ie/en/TouroftheCastle/LordsoftheCastle/TheEighteenthCentury/

https://www.wordnik.com/words/prisage

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