Inhabitants of Bowthorpe in the East Riding of Yorkshire
(1379) The poll tax returns of the 2nd year of the reign of king Richard II for Howdenshire, the area around Howden, were transcribed from the original in the Public Record Office (Exchequer Lay Subsidies 202/69) and published in the Yorkshire Archaeological & Topographical Journal in 1886. In editing the text, the abbreviated Latin has been extended, and those occupations that appear have been put in italics. The normal tax for a husbandman or labourer and his wife was 4d, as was that for a single person; but tradesmen paid 6d or more. NORYS. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Inhabitants of Yorkshire: Claro wapentake
(1379) The poll tax returns for this wapentake, the area around Aldborough, Boroughbridge, Knaresborough and Wetherby.NORYS. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Inhabitants of Yorkshire: Osgoldcross wapentake
(1379) The poll tax returns for this wapentake, the area around Pontefract.NORYS. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Inhabitants of Yorkshire: Strafforth wapentake
(1379) The poll tax returns for this wapentake, the area around Rotherham and Sheffield.NORYS. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Grantees of offices, commissions and pardons
(1413-1416) The Patent Rolls are the Chancery enrolments of royal letters patent. Those for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd years of the reign of king Henry V (21 March 1413 to 20 March 1416) were edited for the Public Record Office by R. C. Fowler, and published in 1910. The main contents are royal commissions and grants; ratifications of ecclesiastical estates; writs of aid to royal servants and purveyors; and pardons. The commissions of the peace issued for the English towns and counties and entered on the rolls, being largely repetitive, have been consolidated in a single appendix.NORYS. Cost: £2.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Close Rolls
(1441-1447) The close rolls of the 20th to 25th years of the reign of king Henry VI record the main artery of government administration in England, the orders sent out day by day to individual officers, especially sheriffs of shires: they are an exceptionally rich source for so early a period. There is also some material relating to Wales, Scotland, Ireland and the English possessions in France. NORYS. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Close Rolls
(1447-1454) The close rolls of the 26th to 32nd years of the reign of king Henry VI record the main artery of government administration in England, the orders sent out day by day to individual officers, especially sheriffs of shires: they are an exceptionally rich source for so early a period. There is also some material relating to Wales, Scotland, Ireland and the English possessions in France. NORYS. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Ash juxta Sandwich Wills (1457) Testators, legatees and witnesses in abstracts by Arthur Hussey of wills of parishioners of Ash by Sandwich, Kent, from Book Wingham.
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London and Middlesex Feet of Fines
(1198-1485) Pedes Finium - law suits, or pretended suits, putting on record the ownership of land in London and Middlesex.NORYS. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Norfolk Feet of Fines
(1307-1485) Pedes Finium - law suits, or pretended suits, putting on record the ownership of land in Norfolk. These abstracts were prepared by Walter Rye.NORYS. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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