Yorkshire

YORKSHIRE:
Some of the Subsidy Rolls (Poll Tax) for the year 1379

When I first placed these files on the Genuki site, there were quite a lot of places with names that I couldn't identify. These have been identified with the help of Yvonne Clarke, Carolyn Fenwick and members of the Yorksgen mailing list, and there is now only one place left to be identified. This place is "Houom", in the East Riding.
If you happen to know the modern name for this, please drop me a line via my email page.

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Colin Hinson, September, 2003.

Public Record Office, Lay Subsidies, West Riding Co. York, No. 200/40, Poll Tax Aqp 2 Richard II. The following is the account of this record given in the catalogue "A Roll made up of portions found at very different times, all in a very good state of preservation, which have been brought together and put in a perfect state of arrangement, so as now to form one of the most complete and valuable of the whole body of the Subsidy Rolls. That it is now complete, and in the state in which it was originally delivered into the Exchequer, appears from this, that attached to one of the membranes, united by old stitching, is the Indenture dated, at Doncaster Monday next after the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in the third year of the King (Richard the Second), made between William de Melton and John Sayvyll, Assessors and Taxors of the Subsidy granted to King Richard the Second in the second year of his reign, in the West riding com. Ebor, on the one part, and Peter Mauleverer, knt., and Richard Lewer, of Doncaster, collectors of the said Subsidy, on the other part, witnessing that the said assessors have delivered to the said collectors 53 indented Rolls in which the names of all persons in the Westriding being of the age of 16, and not notorious mendicants, and the sums charged on each, according to their state and degree, are fully set down according to the form of the said grant. The Rolls, according to the tenor of this Indenture are indented, and are in number exactly 53, viz:- Rossington
Braithwell
Thrybergh
Conisbrough
Ecclesfield
Edlington
Hatfield
Harthill
Wath upon Dearne
Warmsworth
Barnby Dun
Todwick
Armthorpe
Kirk Sandal
Rawmarsh
Darfield
Rotherham
Treeton
Warmsworth
Hooton Pagnell
Hickleton
Thurnscoe
Whiston
Frickley With Clayton
South Anston
Ravenfield
Cantley
Aston
Sheffield
Handsworth
Doncaster

*(Membrane 46b, column 3.)
(This Total is evidently for Claro Wapentake and the Ainsty combined. For neither of them are there separate totals written on the Roll; but the different totals in Claro Wapentake make up 102l. 5s. 6d. and those for the Ainsty 26l. 15s. l0d., which is agreeable to the above sum for the two added together.)

* This agrees with what is written on the dorse of membrane 47, under Staincliff Wapentake, where we have "Summa totalis (i.e., as it appears, of that and the present Wapentake)- lxiij.li. xiiij.s. ij.d."

J.G.
8th February, 1879.
FINIS.