Records created in the course of taxation can be a fruitful source of information about people (taxpayers and others), places and the local economy. The links currently provided below come from relatively early times. It is intended that the collection will be extended as additional sources that are freely available online are identified.
- A subsidy collected in the Diocese of Lincoln in 1526 edited by H Salter [1909] (**) Northamptonshire was part of the vast Diocese of Lincoln until the Diocese of Peterborough was founded in 1541, so the county features in this book.
- Medieval Northamptonshire: The 1301 Assessment for a Fifteenth by Stephen Swailes [2010] (page 7) The contents of this article are not identical with those included in the item about this assessment which is listed below as published on the Notes on Medieval English Genealogy site.
- Northampton in 1524 by Alan Dyer [1979] (page 75) Analysis of evidence of the size, social and economic structure of the town provided by records of the great subsidy of 1524-5.
- Poll Tax 1698 & Window Tax 1702 transcribed and indexed by Kay and John Collins [2000] Poll tax lists are for Huxloe, Rothwell & Corby hundreds. Window tax lists for Huxloe & Rothwell hundreds.
- The Duty on Marriages, Births and Burials for the Rothwell Hundred of Northamptonshire 1697 by Christine Vialls [2026] Introduction, transcript and index of the names of all 4,732 persons recorded as living in each parish within Rothwell hundred, with the sums they would have to pay as tax in the event of a birth, burial, marriage or if a bachelor over the age of 21 or a widower without children.
A collection of transcripts by Stephen Swailes of Northamptonshire tax assessments from 1301 to the reign of Henry VIII can be explored on the Notes on Medieval English Genealogy site. They are accompanied by detailed introductions and searchable by place names and personal names. The collection includes:
- 1301 Assessment for a Fifteenth
- Tudor lay subsidies from 1524, 1525, 1543 and 1545
- Free and voluntary contribution, 1546
- Relief of sheep and cloth, 1549