Tag: Genealogy

Post: Extraits de CARTULAIRES et d’OBITUAIRES – Etienne Baluze

Something different this week. There is a page for this information (with full receipt) where you will find complete information here.

Volume 74, Folio 375 of Etienne Baluze Personal Cabinet Papers (Les Armoires) (Mainly the letters of Malherbes)

I am providing these high resolution images to the public free of charge. If you are a genealogist, please feel free to download these images for your research, but not for financial gain.

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East Sussex Lay Subsidy Rolls: 1550 – Rotherfield, Cuckfield, Horsham, Lewes and others.

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In 2009 I paid for the National Archives to copy these Lay Subsidy Rolls (tax payments collected on cow hides), because nobody has previously requested this be done, so they were not available. These rolls (rots) may also be relevant to other genealogists, so I am sharing high resolution images of them here. I still have a record of the receipts.

Key
Amounts are usually given in Pounds, Shillings and Pennies
The ‘j’ indicates the last penny of each amount

Note
It would take me far too long to order these rolls (rots) according to their Borough, village or district and I could easily make a mistake, because they are so hard to read. Thus I will simply list them with their Roll file index name and leave it to others to dig further! Continue reading “East Sussex Lay Subsidy Rolls: 1550 – Rotherfield, Cuckfield, Horsham, Lewes and others.”