[227] 1 Dowell, Taxation and Taxes, 166, citing 18 Edw. III, 2 c. 3.
[228] 2 Rot. Parl. 161.
[229] 2 Rot. Parl. 200. A translation is given in Adams and Stephens, 113-114.
[230] 2 Stubbs, Const. Hist. Eng. 418.
[231] 1 Statutes of the Realm, 371. Translation in Adams and Stephens, Sel. Doc. 128; 2 Rot. Parl. 271.
[232] 2 Rot. Parl. 308.
[233] In 1334 the fifteenth and tenth was compounded for by a fixed sum, rather than in accordance with a strict assessment. Hereafter each town and each county knew for how much it would have to answer. The expression was the fiscal equivalent of £39,000, less about £6,000 for decayed towns. 1 Dowell, Taxation and Taxes, 89.
[234] The fifteenths and tenths after 1334 noted in Dowell, 1 Taxation and Taxes, 89, note. Taxation, 1351-1359, see Stubbs, 2 Const. Hist. Eng. 424, note 1. Taxation, 1360-1368, see Stubbs, 2 Const. Hist. Eng. 433, note 1 and p. 432.
[235] 14 Edw. III, 2.
[236] 2 Rot. Parl. 161, 202.