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Original documents at the Northamptonshire Record Office. Transcribed by Maureen Moore.

Lay Subsidy - Huxloe Hundred
1522-23

Introduction

The Lay Subsidy was a form of national taxation that was imposed by government as early as the thirteenth century. Most subsidies reveal only the monies collected, although the Tudor subsidy of 1523 -24 and other subsidies around the time are exceptions.

Subsidies were conducted and compiled for each hundred with in the county, with each hundred names of taxpayers are listed for each town or village together with the taxable amount and subsidy collected from each personm, for the town of Northampton occupations were also commonly given.

Not all subsidy returns for the county have survived. Not all adults were covered by the subsidy, so this should not be seen as a through listing of all male adults for the location covered. However, given that this subsidy pre-dates parish registers by several decades in some locations, it provides an excellent listing for genealogists and historians.

The 1523 Subsidy imposed a levy of one shilling in the pound for land worth £50, one shilling in the pound on "personaly" ie savings and personal goods. Sixpence in the pound on Capital Values over 40 shillings and less than £20. Tax was paid on whichever category gave the individual most wealth. Hence the taxable amount shown for each person does not accurately state a person's wealth but it does show a main source of it.These transcripts contain only the valuation made of the person, not the amount. Most women included in the Northamptonshire subsidy were described as Widows.

Christian names are commonly shown in Latin and abbreviated in the original , eg Robtus Willms Henncus for Robert William Henry. Where a name was unclear or obscure, curved brackets () are used to contain the uncertain part. The letter Y was commonly used in place of I and this may cause identical names to occur in different parts of the index eg, Yngran-Ingram, Aynesworth-Ainsworth.

The following words, phases and abbreviations occur throughout the subsidy, and readers are refered to Latin glossaries for clarification:

Vidua-- Widow iv in Vadys-(in wages) iw In Wages
Armiger (1) Knight. il In lands ie in Earnings
it in Terris (in lands) ig In goods ist In stipend
ib in Bonis (in goods)




Money and Assessments

Money values in the subsidy are Latinised. For example, Li pound (librum), S Solidus (Shilling), D Denarius (pence)
Very often a valuation will be on the form vjs viij 9Ie( 6 shilling and eight pence) or xiijs iiij (13shillings and four pence)
The reason why these valuations commonly occur is that 6/8 was one third of a pound and 13/4 was 2 thirds of a pound. Note that it was convention to write the final I in a string of Roman numerals as a long "I" which appears as a j.

Name
Assessment

Name
Assessment
Gauge, Henry gent
it
xx ij L I

Vyrley, Richard
ib
xls
Wolaston, Wyllm
ib
xix li 

Lucke, George
ib
xxs
Golde, John
ib
ixxs

Blowteld, Richard
in lucro
xis
Shorley, Willm 
ib
viijlxs

Yule, Thomas
ib
xxs
Chapman, Nycholas  
ib
viijlxs

Yett, Willm
ib
xxs
Hall, John 
iv
xx s

Gorse, John
ib
vijli
Yett, Willm
ib
xxxs

Smart, Wyllm
iv
xxs
West, Roger
ib
xls

Pywell, Willm
ib
xls
Michell, John 
ib
xxxijli

Daint, John
ib
xxs
Plowryght, Thomas
ib
xli

(Lount) Thomas
ib
vjli
Spencer, John hn
iv
xxs

Wilde, Thomas
ib
xxxs
Taylor, Willm 
iv
xxs

Ede, Willm
ib
cxs
Chapman, John
ib
xiiijl xiijs iiijd

Smyth, John
ib
xls
Palady, Willm 
ib
xxxs

Macchall, John
in lucro
xis
Pete, Willm
in lucro
xxs

Godmachestco, Rychard
in lucro
xxs
Bryne, Robt
ib
xls

Chery, Rychard
ib
xxs
Smyth, John
iv
xxs

Weat, Willm
ib
lxs
Smyth, Thomas
iv
vjli

Fordell, Edmund
ib
lxs
Gydyng, John
ib
vjli

Fordell, John the younger
ib
lxs
James, Willm the elder
ib
xxs

Yete, Thomas
ib
xxs
Fordell, Willm
ib
xls

James, Willm the younger
ib
xls
Loye, John myller
ib
xxs

Deyvell, Rychard
ib
xxxs
Bett, John
ib
xls

Harpyn, Thomas
ib
xxs
Cautyng, Barnard
ib
viijli

Jeyke, John
ib
xiijlvjsviijd
Gyre, Robt
ib
xli

Boyles, John
iv
xxs
Petytt, John
ib
iiijli

Dougull,John
ib
llljil
Fordell, Robt
ib
xxs

Kawfford, Thomas
in lucro
xxs
Fordell, John
ib
xxs

Yete, John
ib
xxs
Hobard, John   
in lucro
xxs

Coutyng, Willm
ib
iiijli
Gyre, John 

viiji

Petytt, John
iv
xxs
Gyre, Lawrence 
ib
xxs

Gyre, Richard
ib
iijli
Yett, Henry

xxs




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