Excerpt from Lay Subsidy Roll for the County of Worcester, Circ. 1280 The total given in the Roll as the amount of the subsidy is £89 83. 1d.; whether this was a tenth or fifteenth, or what other figure, is not known. It is impossible, therefore, to get at the amount of the wealth of Worcester, as we do not know what fraction the 88 represents of the whole sum. 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 for the County of Worcester, Circ. 1280: Edited for the Worcestershire Historical Society These lists do not pretend to be exhaustive; but they give some idea of the respective values of the personal chattels of the Bishop of Worcester and the Abbots of two of the religious Houses. It would be a very important item of county history to give in the same way the names of all the landowners, both ecclesiastical and lay, who were taxed in more than one vill; it would shew to a great extent the landowners of the county at the beginning of the fourteenth century, and the value of their difl'erent estates. 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.