CRICH PARISH

which consists of the villages of Crich, Fritchley and Whatstandwell

Crich Lay Subsidy of 1544

Transcribed by Dr Alan Wilcockson

This document relates to the second payment of the subsidy granted to Henry VIII in 1543 in the hundred of Morleston and Litchurch. It comprises a certificate of assessment and appointment followed by a memorandum of the division of the county among the commissioners, and then the assessment of the individuals there. It is dated 4 November 1544, and was returned into the Exchequer on 18 November 1544. The level at which tax would apply for this subsidy was set at £1 for Goods (bonis). This is a very low level and is the reason the return contains the names of many more people than usual. The rate at which tax on Goods was levied in this second assessment appears to be 1d in the £1. For Lands (terre) the rate appears to be 1s in the £1. The only comparable earlier subsidy is that of 1523 for which the returns for Crich unfortunately no longer exist. The definition of “Lands” and “Goods” is given at the end of this transcription.
The below transcription is for the parish of Crich only and contains forty-two names.

Ref: UK National Archives E179/91/140

Cryche I Germane Pole p terra £20 20shillings
  I Rad Yerdley p bn £4 4d
  I Henrie Orchor p bn £4 4d
  I Galfro Wylde p bn £5 10d
  I Robt Hyll p bn £4 4d
  I Hugone Jacson p bn £4 4d
  I John Redford p bn £3 3d
  I Rad Meyke p bn £5 10d
  I Robt Foxe p bn £3 3d
  I Humfre Kyrkland p bn £3 3d
  I Jacob Hyll p bn 40s 2d
  I execut Will Wyld defunct (dead) p bn £5 10d
  I Robt Wylde p bn £3 3d
  I Johe Wilcokson p bn 40s 2d
  I Johe Jacson p bn 40s 2d
  I Rich Redford p bn 20s 1d
  I Nicse Deyne p bn 20s 1d
  I Thoma Hyll p bn 40s 2d
  I Johe Grenesmythe p bn 20s 1d
  I Wille Alsibroke p bn 40s 2d
  I Johe Wyld p bn 20s 1d
  I Henri Saxon p bn 20s 1d
  I Galfro Redforde p bn 20s 1d
  I Antsonio Redford p bn 20s 1d
  I Xpofre (Christopher) Ordyphe p bn 20s 1d
  I Vidua (Widow ) Reyson p bon 40s 2d
  I Henrie Lodlong p bon 40s 2d
  I Rog Smythe p bn 20s 1d
  I Edmund Butler p bn £3 3d
  I Robt Myln p bn 20s 1d
  I Jacob Coke p bn 20s 1d
  I Rado Coke p bn 20s 1d
  I Rado Wilcokson p bn 40s 2d
  I Robt Alsoppe p bn 20s 1d
  I Rado Kyrkland p bn 20s 1d
  I Thoma Wadle p bn 20s 1d
  I Rado Wethege p bn 40s 2d
  I Robt Banks p bn 20s 1d
  I Robt Smythe p bn 20s 1d
  I Willo T*a*g p bn 20s 1d
  I Willo Gregson p bn 20s 1d
  I Kather Flaket p bn 20s 1d
  Suma 28s .. 3d  

 

Notes:
1) The taxation on “Lands” was on the income derived from that land, i.e. from rents not on the actual capital value of the land itself. In the 1523 statue Lands were defined as being: “that [which] the same person or other to his use have in fee simple, fee tail, term of life, term of years, execution, by ward, by copy of court roll or at will, in any castle, honour, manor, lands, tenements, rents, services, hereditaments, annuities, fees, corrodies or profits of the very just and clear yearly value thereof …

2) The taxation on “Goods” was defined in the 1523 statute as being either coin or that which:…”any such person hath of his own plate, stock in merchandise, all manner of corns and blades severed from the ground, household stuff and all other goods and chattels moveable as well within this realm as without, and of all such sums of money that to him is owing, whereof he trusteth in his conscience surely to be paid, except…such sums of money as he oweth and in his conscience surely to pay and except also apparel of all persons belonging to their bodies, saving jewels of gold”

The following document is courtesy of: The National Archives, reference E179/91/140

tax assessment 1544 for Crich

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