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The Lay Subsidy of 1334, Pt. 2 (Hardcover)
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The Lay Subsidy of 1334, Pt. 2 (Hardcover)
Series: Records of Social & Economic History
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This volume publishes the 1334 Lay Subsidy assessments for the
whole of England. The medieval lay subsidies were taxes on personal
wealth, levied on the laity from time to time to meet the
increasingly urgent demands of the Crown for revenue over and above
its regular income, particularly for military operations. The
subsidy of 1334 continued what had become established practice -
levying a rate of a fifteenth from rural areas and a tenth from
boroughs. But in one important respect it different from its
predecessors: the system of direct taxation on individuals was,
with a few exceptions, replaced by a system of taxation quotes
payable by each vill and borough on the basis of entirely new
assessments negotiated with each local community. These quotes,
with minor adjustments, remained the basis for future collections
of the subsidy for some three centuries, whenever Parliament
granted a fifteenth and a tenth. The records of the 1334 subsidy,
listing county by county some 14,000 places, give complete coverage
over the whole of England, with the exception of the Palatinates of
Chester and Durham and a few other franchises. They thus provide an
invaluable index to the relative wealth of different districts and
individual places in early fourteenth-century England, and afford
many sidelights on the state of the country immediately before the
Black Death. Dr Glasscock supplies a detailed Introduction and an
Index which serves as a valuable gazetteer.
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