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Urban and metropolitan history > Lay subsidy records

Sources for metropolitan London and other urban centres.

1	Two Early London Subsidy Rolls Digitised: 19 November 2004 • Economic history • Urban and metropolitan history Returns from lay subsidies raised in the City of London in 1292 and 1319, arranged by ward, with information on names, occupations and assessments. Modernised classmarks in the National Archives are PRO E179/144/2 and E179/144/3.
2	Two Tudor subsidy rolls for the city of London 1541 and 1582Digitised: 21 March 2005 • Economic history • Urban and metropolitan history An edition of the National Archives documents E.179/144/120 and E.179/251/16, plus the 1541 Orphans' Books of London. By kind permission of the London Record Society.
3	Finance and trade under Edward III The London lay subsidy of 1332Digitised: 17 December 2004 • Economic history • Urban and metropolitan history Contains essays on the lay subsidy of 1332 and related topics regarding taxation, trade and the estate of merchants in London.
4	Cumberland Lay Subsidy Fifteenth and tenth, 6 Edw. IIIDigitised: 27 July 2006 • Economic history • Local history Lists individuals assessed for this tax, levied in 1332-3. It is organised by ward or liberty, and then by vill, and includes the assessment of socage tenants.