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Stratford-upon-Avon: Guild of the Holy Cross: Lay subsidy roll

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Lay subsidy roll for Stratford upon Avon. An indented document giving a list of names of 53 inhabitants of the town of Stratford upon Avon with the value of their goods and the amount of the fifteenth to be paid to the King. With the exception of the name of the King, Edward III, the date is lost The following are the names of the persons paying the tax: Robert de Ponte, John de Lappeworth, Robert Drogun, Walter de Quentone, Robert le Pyper, Robert [Wylmyn], John [de Pydele], Nicholas le Wytesmyht, Richard Godefrey, William le Gorssawe, John de Fylligraue, John le Wytesmyht, [Richard] de Lowesborw, William Mollyng, Adam de Styuingtone, Emma (?) atte Corner, Simon de Warwick, John atte Corner, Alan de Shottereth, William de Vtlycote, Adam de Heyford, Henry Caye, William de Rowleye, William Saucer, junior, William Saucer, senior, Hugh le Chaundeler, Alice Dendelyoun, Robert atte Cornere, John le Wyte, Gilbert Cook (Cocus), Alice Strech, Thomas de Stodleye, John de Myk[ulton?], John de Ilmedon, Richard Messer, Nicholas Geroude, William de Ponte, Thomas Rykelot, John Cooper (Cuperius), John Lacy, Henry le Frettar, John de Ponte, John Begelyn, senior, Henry de Brehull, Walter Byleuole, John Begelyn, junior, John de Hatton, John le Taylour, John de Kemeseye, Gilbert le Sermon, Margery de Hatton, Adam de Ssotterethe, Henry de Wodestoke, and the three Taxatores Nicholas Hikemon, Walter atte Rodehous and William de Wylecote By the endorsement it appears that the tax was to be paid at Warwick in two instalments The total is £12.7.6, but in the endorsement this amount is written over an erasure which appears to have read xij li. xiijs. viijd Seal lost

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Printed in Publications of the Dugdale Society, Vol.VI, pp.94-6.