Subsidy and for the County of Worcester: Edited for the Worcestershire Historical Society (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Clent, John Amphlett Of

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ISBN 10: 1331935377 ISBN 13: 9781331935377

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Subsidy and for the County of Worcester: Edited for the Worcestershire Historical Society

For the transcript of the two Rolls now printed the Worcester shire Historical Society is indebted to Mr. Everard Barton, one of its members, who has not only continued his kindness of last year, when he presented the Society with a transcript of a Subsidy Roll, but has also placed in the hands of the Hon. Editor two further transcripts of succeeding Rolls, which it is hoped to publish in due course.

The Rolls now printed are not of the same kind as those already published by the Society. Those, with exception of the Nonarum Inquisitioms, gave the names of the individual payers of the tenth or fifteenth, as the case might be, in the several vills throughout the county. Of these, the first gives the names of the possessors of Knights Fees within the county upon which the tax was levied; and the second, a list of amerciaments due to the Crown, which were ordered to be received by the collectors of the last imposed tax. Some portion of the first Roll is illegible, or nearly so, and these parts have been supplied by collation with a transcript of it in the Book of Aids, which was compiled in the time of Henry IV., some 70 or 80 years later than its date.

The Roll Of 1346.

The origin of the Knight's Fee is a little doubtful. In the Domesday Survey the land is marked out into hides, and Henry I., when he raised an aid for the marriage of his daughter, took 3s. for each hide. But when Henry II. raised a similar aid he took a mark, 13s. 4d., for each Knight's Fee. Nor was there any rule as to their extent. As was probably the case with the hide, it was determined by value rather than acreage, and the usual amount was no doubt the twenty pounds' worth of annual value, which, till the reign of Edward I.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1331935377
• ISBN 13: 9781331935377
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 56