1581 Subsidy

The Lay Subsidies represent a tax on moveable goods, and the lists can be used to calculate the population. They show returns of taxes raised at irregular intervals on entire populations of villages and towns by the reigning monarch when in special need of revenue. Only the very poor were exempted from this tax.

Witheridge Parish
John Hayes gent Philip Southwoode John Rowe Joan Cockerham William Cockerham John Hole Leonard Hole John Shelledon Robert Lashbrooke Hugh Coyche Mathew Grindon John Cade John Notte Richard Squire James Stawforde Laurence Seleman Leonard Partridge Thomas Downe William Walle Thomas Tanner Thomas Grindon Thomas Melhuishe John Gibbons	L - 20 L - 1 L - 2 L - 1 L - 1 L - 1 L - 1 L - 1 L - 2 L - 1 L - 1 L - 1 L - 1 L - 1 L - 3 L - 1 L - 1 L - 1 G - 8 G - 10 G - 8 G - 18 G - 3	John More Robert Uppington Philip Bowdon John Crooke John Crooke sen James Tolley George Tanner William Meare Roger Chilcotte Thomas Stephens Wm Meare de Foxston Stephen Borne Philip Somerwill William Killande Richard Thomas John Bande Lewis Radforde John Killande John Baker John Tanner	G - 3 G - 10 G - 18 L - 1 G - 7 G - 6 G - 6 G - 6 G - 6 G - 4 G - 6 G - 3 G - 4 G - 4 G - 4 G - 3 G - 6 G - 4 G - 3 G - 7

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