Excerpt from Cumberland Lay Subsidy: Being the Account of a Fifteenth and Tenth Collected 6th Edward III As it stands, assuming that the entire county has been assessed and taking six persons to each household, a rough estimate of the population* approaches If it be assumed that the list is incomplete some further allowance may be made. The City of Carlisle, about this time, only contained lay persons, and of these 678 above 14 years? In the same proportion the number would represent about adults. Taking into consideration ...
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Excerpt from Cumberland Lay Subsidy: Being the Account of a Fifteenth and Tenth Collected 6th Edward III As it stands, assuming that the entire county has been assessed and taking six persons to each household, a rough estimate of the population* approaches If it be assumed that the list is incomplete some further allowance may be made. The City of Carlisle, about this time, only contained lay persons, and of these 678 above 14 years? In the same proportion the number would represent about adults. Taking into consideration that this period - the first half of the 14th century - was one of the most disastrous in the history of Cumberland, it may seem surprising that there should have been so many well-to-do people, and the names and relative importance of such a large number of people at that date will, it is believed, give the document an interest and importance to others besides antiquarians and historians. The original document contains the assessment as well as the amount payable by each individual householder assessed. In the present volume the assessment has been printed in each case, but the total only for the parish or vill. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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