Biographies & Memoirs

Appendix 2

CLERICAL SUBSIDIES, 1327–77

A. Clerical Subsidies Granted to the King

Canterbury

York

Date of Grant

Subsidy

Date of Grant

Subsidy

Assessment

Yield

Nov. 1327

tenth

Oct. 1327

tenth

£18,800

£17,000

Nov. 1334

tenth

Oct. 1327

tenth

£19,000

£16,900

Mar. 1336

tenth

May. 1336

tenth

£19,000

£16,600

Sept. 1336

tenth

Oct. 1336

tenth

£19,100

£16,700

Sept. 1337

3 tenths

Nov. 1337

3 tenths

£57,000

£45,000

Oct. 1338

tenth

£16,000

£14,900

Feb. 1340

tenth

£16,000

£14,900

Feb. 1340

2 tenths

£4,000

£3,000

Oct. 1342

tenth

Dec. 1342

tenth

£18,000

£16,000

May 1344

3 tenths

June 1344

3 tenths

£54,000

£48,900

Oct. 1346

2 tenths

Jan. 1347

2 tenths

£36,000

£32,900

May 1351

2 tenths

May 1351

2 tenths

£36,000

£30,900

May 1356

tenth

June 1356

tenth

£18,000

£15,000

Feb. 1360

tenth

Feb. 1360

tenth

£18,000

£15,000

Jan. 1370

3 tenths

Feb. 1370

3 tenths

£54,000

£45,000

May 1371

special subsidy

May 1371

special subsidy

£50,000

£42,100

Dec. 1373

tenth

Feb. 1374

tenth

£18,000

£15,000

Feb. 1377

poll tax

Apr. 1377

poll tax

£1,000

£800

B. Clerical Subsidies Imposed by `the Pope

Date

Subsidy

Share for King

Royal Share

     

Assessment

Yield

1330

4 tenths

half

£35,600

£35,000

SOURCES

1327–37: W.M. Ormrod, ‘The Crown and the English Economy, 1290–1348’, in B.M.S. Campbell, ed., Before the Black Death: Studies in the Crisis of the Early Fourteenth Century (Manchester, 1991), Tables 2 and 3.

1338–42: Public Record Office, E359/3 (the assessments and yields are estimates).

1344–73: D.B. Weske, Convocation of the Clergy (London, 1937), pp. 252–9, 284–7. The assessments and yields are estimates based on those for 1351, found in Public Record Office, E359/3.

1377: Public Record Office, E359/4B.

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