Tudor Lay Subsidies 1523-1593

Winterbourne Steepleton Parish in Uggescombe Hundred,  Dorset

Extracts from Tudor Lay Subsidies 1523 –1593  

           Transcribed by Richard Crumbleholme 

UGGESCOMBE  HUNDRED  103 / 125;  104 / 253;   104/253

Notes : Lay Subsidies were taxes paid on a person’s movable items and were levied from C12th to C17th. The Great Subsidy Rolls of 1525 listed persons over 16 years of age who merited taxation. By the time of the records above, the tax was paid by lay people only and was standardised at one tenth for town dwellers and one fifteenth for country dwellers

Key to letters & figures :   G = Goods;  W = Wages;  L = Land;    Figures are in £

Source of extract :  Dorset County Museum  Ref N3 - Transcribed by T L Stoate   (1525 – p91;  1545 & 1597 – p96)

(Stoate’s volume also includes a “reckoner” for relating charges to a common basis)

Winterbourne Steepleton was sited in the northern most tip of the Uggescombe Hundred. It covered an area from Chilcombe, Puncknowle and Little Bredy in the west across to Langton Herring and Fleet to the south. It is thought that the ancient Hundred’s meeting place was a moot stone at the common junction of Abbotsbury, Long Bredy, Portesham and Little Bredy parishes. A stone still exists here (OS 588 867) and is near the present entrance to Gorwell Farm, the nearby steep sided valley to the south was the original Ucga’s Coombe which gave its name to the Hundred.