Taxation records and Taxpayers |
Subsidy Roll 47 Edward III (1373)
(PRO E179/237/53)
These
were wealth taxes charged at a rate of 1/15
Sutton Lathe, Akstan Hundred (extract)
(all those from one
parish seem to be grouped together although it doesn't say this in the
document)
From
the Manor of Fawkham 10s
William Kirkeby 10s
John
Asbetyn 2s
John Cylkyndenn 3s 6d
Thomas Baker 18½d
Ralph
[Kot]ele? 4s
Edward Sparwe 18½d
John Maykyn 2s
John
Pour 18d
John Mawer 8s
Archdeacon of Rochester 40d
William
Pour 3s
Thomas Mellar 12½d
John Kotel 18d
John Overay
3s
William Pour junior 2s 4½d
Manor of Hertleye 13s 4d
John
Northassh 3s
William [..]urch (Church?) 3s
Richard Halyday 5s
William
Clerk 4[...]
Robert Crabbe 3[...]
Warin Walton (Dalton) [5..]
Thomas
Smeth 2s
Robert atte Hacch 3s
Total 106s 6½d
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In the parish of Hertlegh
From:
The Manor of Hertelegh 18s 7d
Warin Dalton 6s
Thomas Smyesth' 12d
Robert atte Hay 18d
William Box 18d
John Faver 3s
William Dalton 5s
John Northassch 2s
William Clerk 2s 8d
Robert Crabbe 4s
Roger Vessy 2s
John Tholl 18d
Geoffrey Clerk 6¼d
Henry Simme (?) 18d
Richard Halyday 5s
Total 55s 9¼d
Faukham
William Brien 15s 8d
William Kirkeby 15s 8d
Idon' Grovers 2s 2d
John Bere 4d
Clement Fynyan 3s 4d
John Ingery 4d
Thomas Sayx 12d
Robert Thomalyn 7s
Robert Leylord 4d
John Carles 2s
Thomas Baker 4s 2d
John Ilkynden 2s 1d
Richard Fyret 3s 2d
Ralph Kytel 6s 1d
John Pour 12d
John Sparwe 12d
John Meykyn 2s
Archibald de Langfeld 10s
John Miller 5s
John Overey 5s
William Muchelord 5s
John Pone 5s
William Partrich 5s 1½d
William Rour 5s
Robert Heliday 5s
Total 102s 6½d
[Ash?]
Manor of Esshe 43s
William Topclone 24s
William Southesshe 10s
Thomas Clement 8s 6d
Roger Frannceys 2s
Robert Meller 3s 6d
John Mellere 6s
Henry Mellere 5s
Thomas Redhicton 3s 4d
Thomas Hewe 2s 6d
Thomas Adam 2s
John Hewe 16d
Roger Michel 5s
Henry Hodesole 2s
William Wiltok 18d
Thomas (?) Wotte 2s 2d
John Wotte 3s
Martin Ballard 5s 8d
John Carles 4s
Mabel Martyns 18d
Peter Jasper 2s 6d
Richard John Godchop 16d
John Hodsole 8s
William Bere 2s
Robert Jasper 8s 6d
Richard Shiede 2s 6d
Clement Wodeman 3s 4d
Walter Seohfeld 3s 4d
John atte Hacche 18d
Roger Earel 2s
Stephen Banstede 2s
John Smyth 3s
Richard Launce 18s
Richard Romayn 18d
Richard Hodsole 21¼d
Total £8 7s 3¾d
Undated subsidy roll, but likely to be about
1385 (Extract) (PRO E179/123/48)
William Dalton junior is the only name here
not on the subsidy roll of 1379/80 above, therefore it is likely to
be a little but not much later.
From:
William Dalton 4s
Warin Dalton 3s
Manor of Hertleye
10s
Robert Crabbe 2s
John Fauer 3s
William Dalton junior 2s
6d
Roger Beysey 2s 6d
Subsidy Roll, 15 Henry VIII 1523/4 (PRO E179 124/187)
It is not until the Tudor period that taxation records start to survive in any detail again. |
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Tax due |
William Smyth |
in goods |
£8 |
4s (?) |
John Overey |
in lands |
41s |
2s 0½d |
John Northashe |
in goods |
60s |
14d (?) |
Briane Gille |
in goods |
40s |
12d |
Henry Clerke |
in goods |
£7 |
3s 6d |
Thomas Clement |
in goods |
40s |
12d |
Thomas Crips |
in goods |
£20 |
20s |
Harry Gerrerd |
in goods |
£7 |
3s 6d |
John Richardson |
in wages |
26s 4d |
4d |
Richard Thorneham |
in wages |
20s |
4d |
Sum of Hertley 37s 2½d (the sums above come to 36s 10½d)
Subsidy Roll, 18 Henry VIII (1526/7) (PRO E179 124/208)
Badly faded, only fragment survives.
Subsidy Roll, time of Henry VIII (PRO E179 124/255)
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Tax due |
Richard Smyth |
in goods |
£10 |
6s 8d |
John Walter |
in goods |
£7 |
3s 4d |
John North[as]h |
in goods |
20s |
2d |
John Dalton |
in goods |
20s |
2d |
John Overy |
In lands |
£3 |
8s |
James Cripps |
in goods |
£15 |
10s |
John Mann |
in goods |
20s |
2d |
Accounts of Collectors of Benevolence 36 Henry VIII (1544/45) (PRO E179 125/290)
Hartley
Sir William Porter, parson 5s
James Cripps 13s
4d
John Overey 13s
4d
Richard Smyth 10s
Fakeham
Sir William Herd, parson 5s
Thomas Walter 46s
8d
Jane Kettell, widow 6s
8d
William Pynden 10s
Asshe
Sir William Wyldis, parson 13s
4d
Nicholas Clyfforde, gentleman 40s
William Launce 33s
4d
Robert Borough 26s
8d
Thomas Taylour 13s
4d
William Warren the eder 10s
Thomas Averell 10s
Longfeld
Sir Ewen Carlton, parson 6s
8d
William Lease 20s
Relief, 5 Edward VI (1551/2) (PRO E179 126/340)
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Tax due |
Richard Smyth, husbandman |
for goods |
£10 |
10s |
Jamys Cryppes, husbandman |
for goods |
£15 |
15s |
John Overey, husbandman |
for goods |
£13.6.8 |
13s 4d |
The valuations for the other local parishes was:
Fawkham: Thomas Walter (£40), Walter Pettytt (£10)
Ridley: James Averell (£20)
Ash: William Lance yeoman (£25), Robert Borowe (£20), William Warren sen (£10), Thomas Taylor (£10), Thomas Grenell (£10), Thomas Borowe (£10), Andrew Delasshe Alyen tyler (£8)
Longfield: William Lease yeoman (£13.6.8), John Middylton (£10)
Subsidy Roll, 13 Elizabeth (1570/1) (PRO E179 126/419)
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Tax due |
James Cryspe |
in goods |
£12 |
20s |
Thomas Whithead |
in goods |
£3 |
5s |
Richard Overie |
in lands |
£6 |
16s |
Thomas Goodwyn |
in goods |
£3 |
5s |
John Fellow |
in goods |
£3 |
5s |
Subsidy Roll, 40 Elizabeth (1592/3) (PRO E179 125/305)
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Tax Due |
Richard Overey |
|
£5 |
8s |
Richard Best |
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£3 |
8s |
John Crips |
|
£3 |
8s |
Thomas Whitehead |
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£3 |
8s |
Subsidy Roll, 9 James I (1611/2) (PRO E179 127/566)
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Tax Due |
John Overy |
£3 |
3s |
Elizabeth Best, widow |
£3 |
3s |
Thomas Whitehead |
£3 |
3s |
William Kipps, seassor |
£3 |
3s |
Richard Overie, seassor |
£3 |
3s |
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Total for Hartley |
15s |
Taxpayers from the other local parishes were:
Longfield: Henry Gatlande, Henry Cowlinge, Nicholas Middleton
Fawkham: Joan Maxfeilde, John Walter, Abraham Hackett
Ash cum Ridley: William Averell, Richard Whiffen, Richard Overie, William Hodsoll gent., Thomas Launce, Thomas Comforte
Subsidy Roll, 1 Charles I (1625/6) (PRO E179 127/597)
Only half of Axtane hundred included - not Hartley
Lathe of Sutton at Hone: Poll Taxes
(a) Duplicate of Poll Tax 18 Charles II (1666/7) (PRO E179)
This was the last poll tax before the age of Mrs Thatcher. The lists of names do not survive, only the names of the collectors and how much they collected. From the return for Woolwich it appears the tax was levied at 1 shilling per person and 4d for journeymen. The return for Fawkham contains details of where the tax was respited in two individual cases. Note the great differences in the moneys raised between the two. |
Hartley (collector - Edward Best) £5.9.0
Ash cum Ridley
(collectors - James Lance, Richard Whiffen) £17.11.0
Longfield (collector
- George
Gardiner) £2.15.0
Total for lathe £1,776.8.8
(b) Poll Tax - uncertain date (PRO E179 129/737)
Duplicate of the several sums of moneys raised in the several parishes within the upper division of the lathe of Sutton at Hone within the said county by poll and otherwise toward the present war.
Ash cum Ridley £30.17.0
Fawkham £6.17.8
Hartley
£6.10.0
Longfield £3.6.0
Fawkham: returns of Michael Deane and Thomas Carryer collectors of the money raised by the poll and otherwise in the parish of Fawkham...
Nicholas Brett, a servant to Thomas Walter, rated at 4s (?) per annual wage and fled from his master, leaving only 1 shilling in his master's hand for his poll and no distress to be had - 4s
John Waker and 10 poor children for certificate under 2 commissioner's hand and seal (Michael Deacen (S), Thomas Carryer (X)) - £1.10.0
Allocated by us Thomas Randolph, William Swan - £1.14.0