Appendix 3
|
Date of Grant |
Duration |
Rate per Sack Denizens |
Rate per Sack Aliens |
Authorizing Agency |
|
May 1333 |
May 1333–May 1334 |
10s |
10s |
merchants |
|
Sept. 1336 |
indefinite |
20s |
20s |
merchants |
|
May 1338 |
indefinite |
33s 4d |
53s 4d |
? merchants |
|
Apr. 1340 |
Apr. 1340–May 1341 |
33s 4d |
33s 4d |
parliament |
|
July 1342 |
July 1342–June 1343 |
40s |
40s |
merchants |
|
Apr. 1343 |
June 1343–Sept. 1346 |
40s |
40s |
parliament |
|
Feb. 1346 |
Sept. 1346–Sept. 1348 |
40s |
40s |
lords in council |
|
Mar. 1347 |
Sept. 1347–Sept. 1351 |
40s |
40s |
lords in council (? with merchants)1 |
|
Apr. 1348 |
confirmation of above |
40s |
40s |
parliament |
|
Feb. 1351 |
Sept. 1351–Sept. 1353 |
40s |
40s |
parliament |
|
Oct. 1353 |
1353–56 |
40s |
40s |
commons in great council |
|
Nov. 1355 |
1356–62 |
40s |
40s |
parliament |
|
Oct. 1362 |
1362–65 |
20s |
20s |
parliament |
|
Feb. 1365 |
1365–68 |
40s |
40s |
parliament |
|
May 1368 |
1368–70 |
36s 8d |
36s 8d |
parliament |
|
June 1369 |
1369–72 |
43s 4d |
43s 4d |
parliament2 |
|
Nov. 1372 |
1372–74 |
43s 4d |
43s 4d |
parliament |
|
Nov. 1373 |
1374–76 |
43s 4d |
43s 4d |
parliament |
|
June 1376 |
1376–79 |
43s 4d |
43s 4d |
parliament |
NOTES
1. See p. 303, n. 118.
2. This cancelled the preceding grant and came into immediate effect.
SOURCES
1333: Calendar of Fine Rolls, 1327–37, p. 365; Public Record Office, E356/5, m. 2.
1336–42: E.B. Fryde, ‘Edward III’s War Finance, 1337–41: Transactions in Wool and Credit Operations’, University of Oxford D. Phil. thesis (1947), i. pp. 54–5, 78–80, 487–90; Calendar of Close Rolls, 1341–3, p. 553; E.B. Fryde, William de la Pole, Merchant and King’s Banker (London, 1988), pp. 182–3, 201.
1343 –76: G.L. Harriss, King, Parliament and Public Finance in Medieval England to 1369 (Oxford, 1975), pp. 420–49, 468–9; A. Beardwood, Alien Merchants in England, 1350 to 1377 (Cambridge, Mass., 1931), pp. 44–5; corroborated by the parliament rolls (as cited by J.G. Edwards, The Second Century of the English Parliament, (Oxford, 1975), p. 21, nn. 5, 6), and Public Record Office, E356/8.