Medieval source material on the internet: Taxation and other lists

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General

• [G. Vanderzee, ed.] Nonarum Inquisitiones in Curia Scaccarii, temp. Regis Edwardi III (1807) (FamilySearch)
  Selection of inquisitions and associated documents for a lay subsidy of two ninths granted in 1340. Latin transcripts in record type.
• The Soldier in later Medieval England (University of Reading/University of Southampton)
  Research project investigating the development of professional soldiery between 1369 and 1453. The site includes a searchable database of 220,000 soldiers compiled from muster rolls and records of protections and garrisons. There are also profiles of a number of individual soldiers and essays on related topics.
• Elizabethan muster certificates on the AALT website (Dave King, this site)
  List of documents containing individual names from the period 1558-1580, with links to images of the original documents.

Particular localities

• Barkby, Leicestershire, 13th-16th centuries (David Postles, Leicester University)
  Searchable database, from manuscript sources
• [Derbyshire:] A Muster Roll of 21 Edward III (Rosemary Lockie/David Blackwell, GENUKI) [not available, 27 June 2011; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from August 2010]
  Text from John Pym Yeatman, The Feudal History of the County of Derby
• The Kent Lay Subsidy Roll of 1334/5 (Kent Archaeological Society)
  Images of text edited by H.A. Hanley and C.W. Chalklin, published in Kent Records, vol. 18 (1964). With an index of names.
• H. A. Hanley and C. W. Chalklin, eds, The Kent Lay Subsidy of 1334/5 (1961 [1964]; republished 2008) (Kent Archaeological Society)
  PDF file (2 MB). Transcript with an introduction.
• Soldiers in Kent: The Trained Band under Captain Kempe in 1595 (Peter Stuart, Kent Genealogy)
  Alphabetical list of names of "footmen raised in Wye, Chart & Longbridge, the townshipp of Ashford, the Upper Half Hundred of Calehill and Felborough"
• Kibworth Harcourt, Leicestershire, 13th-14th centuries (David Postles, Leicester University
  Searchable database, from manuscript sources
• John A. C. Vincent Lancashire Lay Subsidies, being an Examination of the Lay Subsidy Rolls Remaining in the Public Record Office London from Henry III. to Charles II. Volume 1. Henry III. to Edward I. (1216-1307) (1893) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
  Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society, volume 27.
  [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive.]
• Lincolnshire Lay Subsidy, 1332 (David Postles, Leicester University) [not available, 12 December 2023; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page]
  Latin list of names, from P.R.O. E179/133/14-16.
• An Index to the 1332 Lay Subsidy Rolls for Lincolnshire, England (Kathleen M. O'Brien, Medieval Scotland)
  Name indexes to the online transcription by David Postles.
• Eilbert Ekwall, ed., Two Early London Subsidy Rolls (1951) (British History Online)
  Lists of names with detailed notes, from the lay subsidies for the City of London for 1292 and 1319, from P.R.O. E179/144/2 and E179/144/3
• London:
  • Two Tudor subsidy rolls for the city of London 1541 and 1582 (British History Online)
    Text from the edition of R. G. Lang, London Record Society, vol. 29 (1993); Transcript of the National Archives documents E.179/144/120 and E.179/251/16, and the 1541 Orphans' Books of London
    Indexes to Lang's transcript of the 1582 subsidy (excluding aliens and strangers) are also available at Lay Subsidy Returns for 1582 (Alan H. Nelson, University of Berkeley).
  • Lay Subsidy Returns for 1576 (Alan H. Nelson, University of Berkeley)
    Transcripts and indexes of unpublished subsidy rolls, in progress.
  • Lay Subsidy Returns for London, Middlesex, Surrey (north) 1593-1600 (Alan H. Nelson, University of Berkeley)
    Transcripts and indexes of unpublished subsidy rolls, in progress. Aliens and strangers are not included; the indexes current contain more than 20,000 names.
• Middlesex: See under London
• Subsidies for parts of Norfolk in 1522,1524 and 1597, as well as a muster roll of 1522, are included in doun.org's searchable Transcription Archive [not available, 25 September 2024; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page]
• Northamptonshire Tax Assessments (Stephen Swailes, this site)
  Searchable transcripts, including the 1301 Assessment for a Fifteenth, Tudor Lay Subsidies, the 1549 Relief of sheep and cloth, and other taxes.
• Northamptonshire: Alice Dryden, ed., Memorials of Old Northamptonshire (Northamptonshire by Postcards and Books [not available, 26 May 2009; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from January 2008]; click "Books", and then choose the link "Memorials of old northampton" on the left-hand side)
  Includes the texts of various 16th-century muster rolls.
• Rutland Lay Subsidy, 1296/7 (David Postles, Leicester University) [not available, 12 December 2023; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page]
  Latin list of names, from P.R.O. E179/165/1.
• Rutland Poll Tax 1377 (David Postles, Leicester University)
  Searchable database, from manuscript sources
• St Ive Parish [Cornwall] 1544 Subsidy and Cornwall Military Survey 1522 (St Ive Parish History Site)
• Subsidies - St. Keverne [Cornwall] 1524 and 1543 (St Keverne Local History Society)
• Muster Rolls - St. Keverne [Cornwall] 1569 (St Keverne Local History Society)
  Also includes the parish of Manaccan
• 1569 Sennen [Cornwall] Muster Roll (Sennen OPC - on line parish clerk)
• Shropshire: The Rev. W. G. D. Fletcher, The Shropshire Lay Subsidy Roll of 1327
  Transcripts with introductions and notes, published in 10 parts in the Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society
  • The Shropshire Lay Subsidy Roll of 1327. Bradford Hundred. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 2nd series, volume 1, pages 129-200 (1889).
  • The Shropshire Lay Subsidy Roll of 1327. Munslow Hundred. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 2nd series, volume 4, pages 287-338 (1892).
  • The Shropshire Lay Subsidy Roll of 1327. Purslow Hundred. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 2nd series, volume 5, pages 343-362 (1893).
  • The Shropshire Lay Subsidy Roll of 1327. Chirbury Hundred. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 2nd series, volume 8, pages 44-60 (1896).
  • The Shropshire Lay Subsidy Roll of 1327. Ford Hundred. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 2nd series, volume 10, pages 113-144 (1898).
  • The Shropshire Lay Subsidy Roll of 1327. Condover Hundred. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 2nd series, volume 11, pages 347-390 (1899).
  • The Shropshire Lay Subsidy Roll of 1327. Pimhill Hundred. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 3rd series, volume 5, pages 55-80 (1905).
  • The Shropshire Lay Subsidy Roll of 1327. Brimstree Hundred. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 3rd series, volume 5, pages 237-252 (1905).
  • The Shropshire Lay Subsidy Roll of 1327. Stottesdon Hundred. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 3rd series, volume 6, pages 123-154 (1906).
  • The Shropshire Lay Subsidy Roll of 1327. Overs Hundred, Shrewsbury and Liberties, and Bridgnorth and Liberties. With an index of places for the whole series. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 3rd series, volume 7, pages 351-378 (1907).
• F. H. Dickinson, Kirby's Quest for Somerset. Nomina Villarum for Somerset [16 Edward III] ... Exchequer Lay Subsidies 169/5 which is a Tax Roll for Somerset of [1 Edward III] [etc] (1889) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  Somerset Record Society [volume 3]. Latin transcripts.
  [Other copies at: Google Books [Hints and tips]; Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 .]
• South Hill Parish [Cornwall] Cornwall Military Survey 1522, 1544/1545 Subsidies and 1569 Muster Returns (South Hill Parish History Site
• Surrey: See under London
• William Hudson, ed., The three earliest subsidies for the county of Sussex in the years 1296, 1327, 1332 (1910) (British History Online)
  Sussex Record Society, volume 10.
  [Other copies at: HathiTrust.]
• Julian Cornwall, ed., The lay subsidy rolls for the county of Sussex 1524-1525 (1956) (Sussex Record Society)
  Sussex Record Society, volume 56.
• Residents of Trunch who paid taxes to Edward III (about 1340) (Trunch Norfolk Notebook) [formerly at http://www.trunchnorfolk.cwc.net/residents.htm; not available, 30 July 2005; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from October 2004]
• Three Elizabethan Musters for Wirksworth Hundred [Derbyshire], 1587-1600 (John Palmer, Wirksworth Parish Records)
  From Derbyshire Archaeological Journal, Vol.17, 1895, pp.1-48
• J. W. Willis Bund and John Amphlett, eds, Lay subsidy roll for the county of Worcester, circ. 1280. (1893) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  Worcestershire Historical Society. Latin transcript.
• F. J. Eld, ed., Lay subsidy roll for the county of Worcester, 1 Edward I [III]. (1895) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  Worcestershire Historical Society. Latin transcript.
• John Amphlett, ed., Lay subsidy roll, A.D. 1332-3, and nonarum inquisitiones, 1340, for the county of Worcester. (1899) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  Worcestershire Historical Society. Latin transcripts.
• John Amphlett, ed., Lay subsidy rolls, A.D. 1346, and A.D. 1358, for the county of Worcester. (1900) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  Worcestershire Historical Society. Latin transcripts.
• The Ainsty Wapentake: Subsidy Rolls ... Subsidy Roll for York and Ainsty (Colin Hinson/Peter Nelson)
  Text from the The Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Journal, vol.4 (1877)
• Yorkshire:
  • Yorkshire Poll Tax (David Postles, Leicester University)
    Searchable database, from the Yorkshire Archaeological Journal edition
  • Yorkshire: Some of the Subsidy Rolls (Poll Tax) for the year 1379 (Peter Nelson/Colin Hinson, GENUKI) [Internet Archive copy from January 2016]
    Transcribed lists of names from The Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Journals, mainly from the West Riding, the Ainsty and Howdenshire in the East Riding. (The archived index page links to an archived list for each place; the lists for places are now linked from GENUKI's parish pages for Yorkshire.)