Medieval Northamptonshire: the 1301 Assessment for a Fifteenth

This article provides a summary description of a transcript of the 1301 lay subsidy produced for the Northamptonshire Record Office. The surviving subsidy roll covers about half of the county and the article gives information on the number of taxpayers, valuations by town and village, occupations and personal names. The roll provides a rare insight into Northamptonshire in the early fourteenth century.