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Dorset Lay Subsidy Roll

Transcribed by Chris Bellers

Taken from Mills A.D. The Dorset Lay Subsidy Roll of 1332. Dorset Record Society. (Dorchester 1971)

A 'lay subsidy' was a tax for a specific purpose, such as subsidising a foreign war, which was distinguished from taxes levied on the clergy. The subsidy was based on a fraction of the value of moveable goods (e.g. livestock and produce). The fraction was one fifteenth for rural and one tenth for urban areas and the royal demesne. The tax was therefore commonly known as the Tenth and Fifteenth. The subsidy became a mainstay of medieval taxation. To start with, the fraction varied with each assessment but, from 1334, the process was simplified by fixing the sums required from each community at the amounts that had been levied in 1332. The subsidy was not abolished until the 17th century.

Key: s. = solidus = shilling, d. = donarius = penny, ob. = obolus = ½ d., q. = quadrans = farthing The Roll uses Roman numerals with a ‘j’ for the final ‘i’, to make it clear the number has ended (so ‘xviij’ is 18, and not 17, and ‘vj’ is 6).

1332 - Fontemel

De Willelmo Northow	x.s.	De Ricardo Broun	xviij. d.
De Johanne Pouke	viij. s. vj. d. q.	De Johanne atte Broke	ij. s.
De Roberto in la Comb’	iij. s. ix. d. ob.	De Johanne Blyk’	ij. s.
De Waltero Wy?trich’	vj. s. vj. d. ob.	De Roberto Foyl	ij. s. viij. d.
De Adam Andreu	v. s. vj. d.	De Thoma Shoue	xij. d.
De Willelmo Gopyld’	ij. s.	De Petro le Hopere	xij. d.
De Rogero Goudrich’	xviij. d.	De Johanne de Monketon’	ij. s.
De Willelmo Cros’	ij. s.	De Willelmo le Nywe	xij. d.
De Thoma Ficher	xij. d.	De Ricardo Robet	xviij. d.
De Henrico Osbern	ij. s.	De Thoma le Bau	xviij. d.
De Willelmo Ywon	iij. s.	De Agnete Creych’	xij. d.
De Willelmo Nichole	vj. s. vj. d.	De Ricardo le Gog’	ij. s. vj. d.
De Johanne Creich’	iij. s.	De Johanne atte Yate	xviij. d.
De Ricardo atte Ok’	ij. s.	De Galfrido Shoue	ij. s.
De Johanne Steuene	xij. d.	De Waltero Denys	xviij. d.
De Hugone Halueknyghtz	iij. s.	De Roberto Crynte	xviij. d.
De Thoma Louel	viij. d.	De Willelmo le Hopere	ij. s.
De Johanne Guch’	xij. d.	De Johanne Damebeneyte	ij. s.
De Willelmo atte Church’	iij. s.	De Adam le Swon	ij. s.
De Johanne Frele	viij. d.	De Petro le Kyng’	xij. d.
De Johanne Rawel	iiij. s.	De Willelmo Bolle	xij. d.
De Johanne Kyng’	ij. s.	Summa. Cvij. s. q. prob[atur]

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