Subsidy Rolls – Malhamdale Poll Tax 1379
Malhamdale Poll Tax 1379
In 1379 this tax was levied on the head of each person above fifteen years old, at the rate of 1/- for each person. In most places the collectors assessed the number of shillings each village must pay by the number of ‘heads’ and shared this sum amongst the household. A rich man might pay considerably more than his shilling, and a poor man correspondingly less, And in Malhamdale you can see that the majority paid fourpence only, with only Johannes de Malghome of Calton paying the much larger sum of 6s 8d.
The following information and lists for the Malhamdale townships is taken from
The Craven and Northwest Yorkshire Highlands
by Harry Speight and published in 1892. It is not quite certain where some of the Malhamdale area townships are listed as there are no seperate listings for Bordley, Winterburn or Malham Moor, but it is possible they are listed under Hetton, Flasby and Malham respectively. GENUKI provides a complete listing of the
1379 Subsidy Rolls for Yorkshire .
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A LIST OF THE INHABITANTS OF CRAVEN AND BORDERING DISTRICTS, FIVE CENTURIES AGO BEING THE POLL TAX RETURNS OF THE WAPENTAKES OF STAINCLIFFE AND EWECROSS, 2ND RICHARD II (AD 1379 )
This famous Tax, which was the cause of an ill-starred revolt, was framed and levied on the accession of King Richard II as a means of raising funds to re-furnish the Treasury coffers, which had been emptied on French battlefields, and to maintain Calais and other maritime towns of France, then in the possession of England. It was in the form of a graduated poll-tax ranging from 10 marks, at which the Duke of Lancaster was charged, down to 4d, on all lay persons above the age of 16 years, notorious mendicants excepted . The clergy were separately taxed. All married couples were charged at a single rate. These ancient Rolls are especially valuable, as they exhibit in great measure the state of society at the time ; who were the Knights and Esquires ; who the merchants, artificers &c., and what the relative size and importance of the villages comprised. From these simple lists we gather the number and names of the married and unmarried inhabitants, what their degree and avocation, although these are not always stated. The same rank or trade is, moreover, not always charged alike, which must have been regulated by the income or standing of the individual. Thus, an Esquire was usually rated at 20s., but sometimes at 6s . 8d ., and even 3s. 4d . Farmers of manors and granges were charged 2s . ; tradesmen and artificers commonly 6d ., but occasionally 1s . ; innkeepers, 2s. and 1s . ; while the great mass of the people, who were engaged in agriculture, paid a groat, or 4d .
Entries of the same trade are often described under different names, e .g., a smith is sometimes a mareschal, ferour, orfaber ; a tailor, cissor, tailliour, or taliar ; a butcher, bocher, flesher, carnifex, or fleshewer ; a grocer, spicer ; a joiner, sagher ; a shoemaker, sutor ; a mason, cimentor ; a builder or waller, douber or dauber ; a thatcher, theker ; a weaver, textor or webster ; a cloth-fuller, fullo or walker ; a dyer, tinctor or lystar ; a merchant, mercator ; a peddler pedder. Other occupations, such as hosteler, herbeiour, miller, diker, slater, nayler, glasier, &c., are obvious and self-explanatory.
| AYRETON (Airton) | |
| Johannes de Preston senior & uxor | iiij d |
| Johannes del Myre, Theker & uxor | iiij d |
| Johannes de Preston junior & uxor | iiij d |
| Johannes filius Roberti & uxor | iiij d |
| Ricardus Porter & uxor | iiij d |
| Johannes de Scothorp & uxor | iiij d |
| Isabella uxor Thome | iiij d |
| Willelmus Gose & uxor | iiij d |
| Adam filius Willelmi & uxor | iiij d |
| Arnaldus de Ayreson & uxor | iiij d |
| Robertus Hynt & uxor | iiij d |
| Agnes uxor Johannis Spenser | iiij d |
| Johannes de Ayreton & uxor | iiij d |
| Johannes filius Willelmi & uxor | iiij d |
| Johannes filius Thome & uxor | iiij d |
| Johannes Smyth, Faber & uxor | vj d |
| Johannes Wyndill & uxor | iiij d |
| Seruient – Willelmus Porter | iiij d |
| Emma Fox | iiij d |
| Anabella Grafdog | iiij d |
| Cicilia de Thornton | iiij d |
| Summa | vij s —- x d |
| CALTON | |
| Johannes de ffrekylyngton, Marchant & uxor | ij d |
| Johannes de Malghome, ffrankeleyn & uxor | vj s —- viij d |
| Ricardus Wilkokson & uxor | iiij d |
| Thomas Haughenlyt & uxor | iiij d |
| Johannes Hulwath & uxor | iiij d |
| Robertus Molyff & uxor | iiij d |
| Willelmus de Buneby & uxor | iiij d |
| Rogerus de Calton & uxor | iiij d |
| Ricardus Chese & uxor | iiij d |
| Henricus de Preston, Spicer & uxor | xij d |
| Robertus Kyng & uxor | iiij d |
| Johannes Paytfyn & uxor | iiij d |
| Johannes Kyng, Hosteler & uxor | xij d |
| Johannes Kyngson & uxor | iiij d |
| Thomas filius Ricardi Wykok & uxor | iiij d |
| Henricus Tylnay & uxor | iiij d |
| Willelmus seruiens Willelmi de Boneby & uxor | iiij d |
| Alicia Jolyff | iiij d |
| Cecilia Hulwath | iiij d |
| Thomas Kyngson | iiij d |
| Summa | xv s —- — d |
| CALDCONYNGSTON (Coniston Cold) | |
| Willelmus Grundolff, Cissor & uxor | vj d |
| Jordan de Rode & uxor | iiij d |
| Johannes Turpyn & uxor | iiij d |
| Johannes de Mytton, Sutor & uxor | vj d |
| Willelmus Hardy & uxor | iiij d |
| Mater Willelmi Hardi | iiij d |
| Robertus Turpyn & uxor | iiij d |
| Ricardus Doeggson, ffullo & uxor | vj d |
| Johannes Maymond, Mercator & uxor | xij d |
| Johannes Clerkson & uxor | iiij d |
| Thomas Clerkson & uxor | iiij d |
| Johannes filius Thome Dykson & uxor | iiij d |
| Willelmus Clerkson & uxor | iiij d |
| Thomas Clerkson & uxor | iiij d |
| Thomas Dykson & uxor | iiij d |
| Thomas de Twaytes & uxor | iiij d |
| Adam Jonson & uxor | iiij d |
| Willelmus Yttyng & uxor | iiij d |
| Robertus Clerkson & uxor | iiij d |
| Anabella Grane | iiij d |
| Johannes filius Willelmi & uxor | iiij d |
| Ricardus Rayner, Couper & uxor | vj d |
| Summa | ix s — iiij d |
| ESCHCETON (Eshton) | |
| Johannes de Grene & uxor | iiij d |
| Thomas at le Townhend & uxor | iiij d |
| Thomas Symson & uxor | iiij d |
| Thomas Dauson & uxor | iiij d |
| Johannes Wreghson & uxor | iiij d |
| Johannes de Newton & uxor | iiij d |
| Ricardus filius Henrici & uxor | iiij d |
| Willelmus Judson & uxor | iiij d |
| Johannes de Bolton & uxor | iiij d |
| Johannes filius Roberti & uxor | iiij d |
| Johannes Langcast & uxor | iiij d |
| Robertus Wreghtson & uxor | iiij d |
| Johannes Browne & uxor | iiij d |
| Johannes Raper & uxor | iiij d |
| Seruient – Thomas seruiens Johannis Graue | iiij d |
| Adam Wreght | vj d |
| John de Escheton, Faber | iiij d |
| Summa | vj s — vj d |
| HAMLYCH (Hanlith) | |
| Ricardus del Myre, Mason & uxor | vj d |
| Ricardus Dawson, Walker & uxor | vj d |
| Johannes Walche, Smyth & uxor | vj d |
| Johannes seruiens Willelmi Clerke | iiij d |
| Summa | xxij d |
| KYRKBY (Kirkby Malham) | |
| Willelmus Seriantson & uxor | iiij d |
| Willelmus Kychyne & uxor | iiij d |
| Robertus de Poxton & uxor | iiij d |
| Johannes de Aston & uxor | iiij d |
| Willelmus de Grene & uxor | iiij d |
| Thomas Nableson & uxor | iiij d |
| Petrus del Hall & uxor | iiij d |
| Willelmus Stothyrd & uxor | iiij d |
| Ricardus de Sallay & uxor | iiij d |
| Robertus de Stephen & uxor | iiij d |
| Sabyna Tottedoghter | iiij d |
| Agnes seruiens Willelmi Stothyrd | iiij d |
| Johannes Tailliour, Cissor & uxor | vj d |
| Thomas Walker, Fullo & uxor | vj d |
| Summa | v s —— – d |
| BALGHOM (Malham) | |
| Richardus de Dale & uxor | iiij d |
| Willelmus Richardson & uxor | iiij d |
| Robertus de Wod & uxor | iiij d |
| Adam Tomson & uxor | iiij d |
| Willelmus Hodson & uxor | iiij d |
| Robertus de Cote & uxor | iiij d |
| Ricardus Walche & uxor | iiij d |
| Willelmus Richardson & uxor | iiij d |
| Adam Wyllson & uxor | iiij d |
| Robertus Crumbok & uxor | iiij d |
| Willelmus de Steuen & uxor | iiij d |
| Willelmus de Wyndesouer & uxor | vj d |
| Thomas Jose & uxor | iiij d |
| Johannes de Sallay & uxor | iiij d |
| Ricardus Wyndesouer & uxor | vj d |
| Johannes Nottson & uxor | iiij d |
| Ricardus del Mire & uxor | iiij d |
| Johannes Hyne & uxor | iiij d |
| Adam Wylkokson & uxor | iiij d |
| Simon del Hall & uxor | iiij d |
| Willelmus de Dene & uxor | iiij d |
| Ricardus Wilkokson & uxor | iiij d |
| Willelmus de Westsydhowse & uxor | iiij d |
| Henricus de Grene & uxor | iiij d |
| Adam de Medlehewe & uxor | iiij d |
| Johannes de Kyrkby & uxor | iiij d |
| Johannes Akeson & uxor | iiij d |
| Willelmus Swyer & uxor | iiij d |
| Seruient – Henricus Spuner | iiij d |
| Henricus del Hall | iiij d |
| Johannes filius Ade Wylkokson | iiij d |
| Ricardus Wylyn | iiij d |
| Robertus Qwytheued | iiij d |
| Johannes Browne | iiij d |
| Johannes seruiens Ricardi Aykokson | iiij d |
| Henricus seruiens ejusdem | iiij d |
| Johannes de Crumbok | iiij d |
| Richardus Hardy | iiij d |
| Thomas Golgill | iiij d |
| Thomas Swyer | iiij d |
| Alicia de Yowdall | iiij d |
| Agnes Brukne (?), Textrix | vj d |
| Agnes Webstre, Textrix | vj d |
| Johannes Tailliour, Cissor | vj d |
| Summa | xvj s — ij d |
| OTERBURN (Otterburn) | |
| Willelmus de Bradlay & uxor | iiij d |
| Johannes Chyld & uxor | iiij d |
| Willelmus filius Roberti & uxor | iiij d |
| Johannes Medylhowe & uxor | iiij d |
| Ricardus filius Henrici & uxor | iiij d |
| Willelmus Maldson & uxor | iiij d |
| Johannes Bolyngton & uxor | iiij d |
| Willelmus de Bolyngton, Smyth & uxor | vj d |
| Johannes Setle & uxor | iiij d |
| Wllhelmus Nayler & uxor | iiij d |
| Henricus Jamsman & uxor | iiij d |
| Johannes Lamberd & uxor | iiij d |
| Thomas Lambhyrd & uxor | iiij d |
| Seruient – Johannes de Bolyngton | iiij d |
| Alicia de Skypton | iiij d |
| Matilda seruiens Johannis de Setle | iiij d |
| Summa | v s —- vj d |
| SCOTHRORP (Scosthrop) | |
| Ricardus de Calton & uxor | iiij d |
| Thcmas Maknest & uxor | iiij d |
| Willelmus Clerke, Scriptor & uxor | vj d |
| Thomas Steuenson & uxor | iiij d |
| Johannes Pymson & uxor | iiij d |
| Johannes Hyne & uxor | iiij d |
| Adam Robynson, Cissor & uxor | vj d |
| Henricus Pynder & uxor | iiij d |
| Thomas Robyson, Faber & uxor | vj d |
| Seruient – Thomas filius Ade Robynson & uxor | iiij d |
| Matilda Yowhyrd | iiij d |
| Isabella Barker | iiij d |
| Thomas Browne | iiij d |
| Isabella Aylyn | iiij d |
| Cecilia Wylyn | iiij d |
| Johannes seruiens Willelmi Clerke | iiij d |
| Summa | v s —– x d |
| FFLASBY (Flasby with Winterburn) | |
| Nicholas Grandage, Armatus | xl d |
| Thomas Grandage & uxor | vj d |
| Thomas de Esseton & uxor | iiij d |
| Johannes Ffawnell & uxor | iiij d |
| Doket Flasby & uxor | iiij d |
| Adam de Kechyne & uxor | iiij d |
| Robertus filius Ade & uxor | iiij d |
| Johannes de Kerke & uxor | iiij d |
| Nicholaus Pape & uxor | iiij d |
| Willelmus de Swenden & uxor | iiij d |
| Johannes Sponer & uxor | iiij d |
| Willelmus Newcoume & uxor | iiij d |
| Willelmus Cowhyrd & uxor | iiij d |
| Willelmus de Hall & uxor | iiij d |
| Johannes de Horton & uxor | iiij d |
| Johannes Turner & uxor | iiij d |
| Johannes Browne & uxor | iiij d |
| Willelmus de cote & uxor | iiij d |
| Johannes de Bonby & uxor | iiij d |
| Johannes Addeson & uxor | iiij d |
| Adam Waynman & uxor | iiij d |
| Willelmus Geldhyrd & uxor | iiij d |
| Adam Bradbelt & uxor | iiij d |
| Willelmus de Boneby & uxor | iiij d |
| Adam de Cote & uxor | iiij d |
| Willelmus Walker & uxor | vj d |
| Henricus Darwent, Walker & uxor | vj d |
| Henricus de Cote, Draper & uxor | vj d |
| Johannes Staple, Carpenter & uxor | vj d |
| Johannes filius Roberti, Webster & uxor | vj d |
| Agnes Padmire doghter , Webster & uxor | vj d |
| Johannes filius Thome Grandage | iiij d |
| Agnes filia Willelmi | iiij d |
| Amya filia ejus | iiij d |
| Agnes Noryse | iiij d |
| Willelmus Walkerman | iiij d |
| Robertus Grandage | iiij d |
| Ricardus Geliot | iiij d |
| Alicia Bascholf | iiij d |
| Robertus Alanson | iiij d |
| Elena Robyndoghter | iiij d |
| Johannes Doket | iiij d |
| Thomas serviens Pape | iiij d |
| Robertus Darwent | iiij d |
| Edmundus serviens Ade Bradbelt | iiij d |
| Willelmus filius Roberti filius Alani | iiij d |
| Henricus serviens Ade de Cote | iiij d |
| Adam serviens Ade de Cote | iiij d |
| Matilda Browndoghter | iiij d |
| Johannes filius Thone de Edelston | iiij d |
| Cicilia (filia)? Ade Bradbelt | iiij d |
| Matilda Sponer | iiij d |
| Summa | xxj.s x d |
Printed copies of
The Craven and Northwest Yorkshire Highlands
The above link no longer works but copies of the book are generally available
by Harry Speight, published by Elliot Stock, London in 1892
You can also download a free, searchable copy using the link below.
PDF copy from Archive.org
Malhamdale Local History Group 