London and the Kingdom - Volume 1 / A History Derived Mainly from the Archives at Guildhall in the Custody of the Corporation of the City of London.

by Reginald R. Sharpe

By the bull Clericis Laicos, Boniface VIII had recently forbidden the clergy to pay taxes to any layman.—Chron. of Walter de Hemingburgh (Eng. Hist. Soc.), ii, 113-116.

Stubbs, Const. Hist., ii, 130, 131, 134.

Chron. of Walter de Hemingburgh, ii, 121.

-Id., ii, 126, 127.

-Id., ii, 149, 151.

Letter Book B, fo. xxxvii (101b).

Preserved among the City Archives (Box 26). Cf. Letter Book C, fo. xxiv, b.

Letter Book B, fo. 93.

Letter Book C, fo. 24. (Riley's Memorials, 37).

Strictly speaking, a talliage could only be charged on the king's demesnes, and these did not include the City of London.