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Excerpt from Lay Subsidy Roll, A. D. 1332-3, and Nonarum Inquisitiones, 1340: For the County of Worcester Lay Subsidy Roll, 1332-3. - In 1332 three parliaments were called together, of which two sat at Westminster, March 16-21, and September 9-12, and the third at York, December 2-11, and the second of these parliaments granted a Subsidy of a fifteenth and a tenth. The Roll of this Subsidy for the County of Worcester is found in two portions numbered in the Record Office respectively 200/2 and 200/23, the first consisting of six membranes of odd lengths, all in a more or less mutilated condition, and the ink in parts faded and rubbed; and the other of one membrane, also fragmentary. A copy of these has been kindly placed at the disposal of the Worcestershire Historical Society by Mr. Everard Barton, one of its members. The parchments contain the assessments for portions of the Hundreds of Oswaldeslowe, Doddingtree, Pershore, and Blackenhurst; there is nothing in them relating to the Hundred of Halfshire. The present order of the membranes is not as they originally occurred in the Roll, but it is possible to piece them up, and form of them two larger fragments. The following table shews something of the original manner in which the portions followed each other. The Hundreds which contain the various vills are shewn by the initial letters of their names. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Lay Subsidy Roll, A. D. 1332-3, and Nonarum Inquisitiones, 1340, for the County of Worcester: Edited for the Worcestershire Historical Society This last pair of skins ought, by the Hundreds they contain portions of, to come before the former reconstruction, but the symmetry is marred by Blackwell, which occurs on three mem branes, and in the columns I and 2. Possibly I have incorrectly identified the fragment assigned to that vill on page 3; so much of this part of the Roll is destroyed that it is easy to make a mistake. The end of Membrane 5 is clearly the end of the Roll, as both recto and dorm at the bottom of the second column are the totals of Hundreds, and to the bottom of it is sewed Membrane 6, containing the totals of the whole Roll. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.