Biographies & Memoirs

Appendix 1

LAY SUBSIDIES, 1327–77

Date of Grant

Subsidy

 

Assessment

Yield

1327

twentieth

 

£25,400

£23,400

1332

fifteenth and tenth

 

£34,300

£32,400

1334

fifteenth and tenth

 

£37,300

£36,600

Mar. 1336

fifteenth and tenth

 

£38,500

£37,500

Sept. 1336

fifteenth and tenth

 

£38,500

£36,800

1337

3 fifteenths and tenths

(1)

£38,300

£33,900

   

(2)

£38,200

£34,100

   

(3)

£38,100

£34,700

1338

tax in wool

 

£79,400

£73,000

1340

ninth

 

£100,000

£65,000

1341

tax in wool

 

£151,100

£131,200

1344

2 fifteenths and tenths

(1)

£38,000

£37,000

   

(2)

£38,100

£36,800

1346

2 fifteenths and tenths

(1)

£38,200

£37,300

   

(2)

£38,200

£36,300

1348

3 fifteenths and tenths

(1)

£38,400

£34,600

   

(2)

£38,400

£31,900

   

(3)

£38,400

£35,300

1352

3 fifteenths and tenths

(1)

£38,300

£36,800

   

(2)

£38,300

£36,800

   

(3)

£38,300

£36,700

1357

fifteenth and tenth

 

£38,100

£37,300

1360

fifteenth and tenth

 

£38,000

£6,000

1371

parish subsidy

 

£50,000

£49,000

1372

fifteenth and tenth

 

£37,800

£36,000

1373

2 fifteenth and tenth

(1)

£37,800

£36,000

   

(2)

£37,800

£36,000

1377

poll tax

 

£22,600

£21,600

SOURCES

1327–48: W.M. Ormrod, ‘The Crown and the English Economy, 1290–1348’, in B.M.S. Campbell, ed., Before the Black Death: Essays in the Crisis of the Early Fourteenth Century (Manchester, 1991), Tables 1 and 5.

1348–57: W.M. Ormrod, ‘The English Government and the Black Death of 1348–49’, in WM. Ormrod, ed., England in the Fourteenth Century: Proceedings of the 1985 Harlaxton Symposium (Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1986), pp. 184–5.

1360: G.L.Harriss, King, Parliament and Public Finance in Medieval England to 1369 (Oxford, 1975), pp. 396–400; Public Record Office, E401/457, 460. Neither the assessment nor the yield of this tax can be calculated properly, because it was kept out of the control of the exchequer and spent locally. The sum of £6,000 given here represents only that fraction which happened to be handed over to royal agents and was recorded on the receipt rolls.

1371: W.M. Ormrod, ‘An Experiment in Taxation: The English Parish Subsidy of 1371’, Speculum, p. lxiii (1988), p. 80. To the figure of £49,600 given there I have added the £353 16s paid by the men of Co. Durham as a free-will offering in lieu of the tax (Public Record Office, E401/518, 21 Nov. 1374).

1372–77: E.B. Fryde, ‘Introduction to the New Edition’, in C. Oman, The Great Revolt of 1381, 2nd edn (Oxford, 1969), p. xii, n. 6, and p. xvii. The figures for yields for 1372–3 are my own estimates.

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