Taxation

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 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

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