The Poll Taxes of 1377, 1379, and 1381 - Part 1: Bedfordshire-Leicestershire

The English poll taxes of 1377, 1379, and 1381 taxed householders, wives, dependants, and servants individually. The tax records therefore provide information about people who are rarely, if ever, mentioned in other documents. This massive resource is being published in three volumes - this first volume covers all three taxes for Bedfordshire to Leicestershire.

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The English poll taxes of 1377, 1379, and 1381 taxed householders, wives, dependants, and servants individually. The tax records therefore provide information about people who are rarely, if ever, mentioned in other documents. This massive resource is being published in three volumes - this first volume covers all three taxes for Bedfordshire to Leicestershire.

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Dr Fenwick deserves our admiration and gratitude for undertaking the formidable task of editing all the surviving records with such patience and effectiveness. Her volume (the first of three) does far more than merely 'fill the gap' for historians; it and its successors will probably extend our knowledge of late-medieval England more than any single text edited during the twentieth century ... Whether the field is that of biography or demography, social or economic history, local or family history, or onomatology, these records provide incalculable, fascinating material, which will make an enormous difference to most branches of late-medieval history.

Product details

• Assisted by: Caroline Fenwick (Editor), Caroline C. Fenwick (Editor), Carolyn Fenwick (Editor), Carolyn C. Fenwick (Editor), Fenwick Carolyn C. (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2025
• EAN: 9780197261866
• ISBN: 978-0-19-726186-6
• No. of pages: 688
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 243 mm x 44 mm
• Weight: 1215 g
• Illustrations: figures, tables
• Series: Records of Social and Economic History (New Series); Records of Social & Economic H; Records of Social and Economic History (New Series); Records of Social and Economic History; Records of Social and Economic; Records of Social & Economic H; The Poll Taxes of 1377, 1379, and 1381
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Taxes; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Bedfordshire, Leicestershire, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Public Finance, REFERENCE / Genealogy & Heraldry, Economic history, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Taxation, Social and cultural history, Public finance and taxation, Genealogy, heraldry, names & honours, Genealogy, heraldry, names and honours