England’s Immigrants 1330 – 1550 Resident Aliens in the Late Middle Ages
Archive: | The National Archives |
Reference: | E 179/103/125 |
Document Type: | tax assessment |
Document Date: | 2 January 1525 |
Notes: | Unfortunately this document lists the taxpayers only by hundred, not by village, and no equivalent document for these hundreds survives for the first payment. As in most of Dorset for this tax, the vast majority of alien taxpayers are described as 'Normans'. Whether they all truly were from Normandy, or whether this term was simply used to refer to all French people in general, or even to all alien taxpayers, is unclear, but other sources do indicate that there were a large number of Normans in this region at this time. |
1523 subsidy, 2nd collection |
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