England’s Immigrants 1330 – 1550 Resident Aliens in the Late Middle Ages

E 179/235/23, m. 8 [633]

Archive: The National Archives
Reference: E 179/235/23
Sub-reference: m. 8
Document Type: tax assessment
Document Date: 5 September 1449
Notes: Bridge and Billingsgate wards assessed together. The assessment includes Italian merchant strangers (from Venice, Genoa and Lombardy) paying 6s 8d each, and merchants' clerks paying 20d each. As well as being noted as householders, a note has also been made on whether they paid extra as merchants or clerks. Bradley has noted these Italians in her PhD thesis, appendix 4.

Tax Collections

1449 alien subsidy, 1st collection

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