Tudor Taxation Records Richard Hoyle PRO Readers' Guide historical manuscripts

Tudor Taxation Records

 (Public Record Office Readers' Guide no 5)

by Richard Hoyle 

Pub. PRO Publications, 1994. . 

Softback.

x + 66 pages, illustrated.

English text.

 “Our ancestors doubtless resented having to pay taxes, but we must be grateful that they did. Taxation records are an indispensable source for local, family and economic historians and historical geographers. Dr Richard Hoyle draws decade’s experience of using and editing Tudor ion Records to explain the nature and utility of the documents. The book includes a description and discussion the familiar lay subsidy rolls together with accounts of a whole range of less familiar sources; the records of the fifteenth, the returns of the Military Survey of 1522 and the records of loans and benevolences. There is a particular emphasis on where the records may be found in the Public Record Office (and elsewhere) and what the reader may t to find in them. The guide seeks to be a sober and practical manual for both the beginner and the more advanced student whatever their interests: much of what it contains cannot be found elsewhere.

A particular feature of the guide is that it contains a list of all the records of the Military Survey and loans of 1522 and 1523 presently known to survive and a full bibliography of the tax returns in print.”

Condition: very good+.