Tudor Lay Subsidies 1523-1593

Parish in the Hundred of       ,  Dorset

Extracts from Tudor Lay Subsidies 1523 –1593  

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To be completed

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)