Cosgrove - Assessment for a fifteenth, 1301

PRO E 179/155/31

Hundred de Cleley. Assessment for a fifteenth, 1301

Conventions:
Any material not transcribed from the original is given in square brackets. Forenames are presented in their common
modern spelling wherever possible. Surnames which cannot be expanded with confidence are followed by an apostrophe.

Covesgrave [Cosgrove]
		Li	s	d
1	Henry Spyganel		xxiij	vij o
2	William de Burrich'		xvij	q
3	William le Siainte		iij	o
4	Richard le Warde		v	v o q
5	John Lucas		ij	iij o
6	Sarah Snel			xv
7	John son of Henry		x	j
8	John Rowold			xij o
9	William de Barnemle		ij
10	Richard Forester			iij
11	Walter le Flecher		ij	j
12	John de la grene		iij	iij o q
13	John le Carpenter		ij	vij
14	Alice widow of Philip		ij	v
15	John Neuman		iij	o q
16	Agnes Iwel			xij o
17	William Bercar'			xxj o
18	Robert Frannceys
19	Robert son of Ale		ij	x q
20	Ralph de long Capo'			xviij
21	Hugh Terry		ij	vj q
22	Robert William			xxiij o
23	Lawrence le Foulere			xvij o
24	Parnel de Barnemlle			xxiij o
25	Nicholas de Molend'		iij	v
26	William Carta'			xiij
27	Felicia Hannid		ij	iiij
28	John Kynnyng'			xij q
29	Hugh Hubelston'		ij	vij
30	John le Masun		ij	o q
31	John de Ircester		ij	q
32	Adam Sohad		ij	o
33	Robert Bot'		ij	iiij o
34	Henry Skyppyn		ij	v
35	Walter Iwel			xxiij q
36	Robert Terry		v	vj q
37	William Terry			xiij q
38	William Carect'		ij	vj o
39	Adam de Fortho		v	vj o
40	Henry son of Nicholas		ij	j o
41	Robert Tebbe			xij
42	Adam Cok'		vj	iiij o
43	Margaret Broyn		ij	iij
44	John Palmer		ij	viij
45	John de Connynliton			xiij o
46	Richard Brid			xviij
47	Richard Cok'		ij	xj o
48	John Swetecok'		v	j o
49	Richard le Parker			xvij o
50	Stephen Carpenter			xv q
51	William Attegne'			xij o q
52	Alice Rowald			xiij q
53	John de Barnemle		iij	vij
54	John son of John		iij	vi
Summa		viij	ij	iij

Subsidy & Assessment

Assessment

The Cleley Hundred section of the roll PRO E 179/155/31

The roll is an assessment for a fifteenth. The personal names listed in the roll are of those who are holding property in the county relating to the grant in 1301.

The roll was compiled after the issue of commissions in late October/early November 1301. Collection of the grant was seriously delayed and a writ of 25 June 1303 gives a payment date of the morrow of St Laurence next in Northants. In spite of its size the roll contains assessments for only ten hundreds, or about half of the county.

Subsidy

Parliament opened on 15 April 1523 . On 21 May it granted an annual subsidy for four years, to be assessed each year between 29 September and 11 November, and paid the following 9 February. It was hoped to raise a total sum of £800,000, although no mention of this amount was included in the text of the Parliamentary Act. For the first two years, land was assessed at twelve pence in the pound, and moveable goods at the rate of twelve pence in the pound for those over £20 of goods, and sixpence in the pound for those with 40 shillings to £20 of goods. Persons who paid annual wages of over 20shillings were charged with four pence annually, although in practice many commissioners assessed such wage earners to pay six pence. Aliens paid a double tax of eight pence on their wages, if they received any, and if they did not, they were required to pay a poll tax of eight pence.

The assessment and collection procedures were substantially the same as those first put in place in 1512. For the first time, however, commissioners were required to return duplicates of the individual assessments into the Exchequer, with the certificates of assessment, and this practice was to become standard procedure for the levy of all Tudor and Stuart subsidies.