S^ttt)sitri? fov tf)c i^uutfvrtf of Sc«"ivstialc, 1599. 



By W. A. Carrington. 



UBSIDIES, or Aids, were granted by Parliament to 

 the Crown, on various occasions, for royal or imperial 

 jnirixjses, and were levied upon landowners in respect 

 of the annual value of their lands at the rate of 4s. in 

 the pound, and upon other persons in respect of their movable 

 goods, including crops on the grt)ss value, at the rate of 2s. 8d. 

 in the pound. Persons having goods of less value than ^3 

 were exempted. 



The Subsidy Rolls for the county of Derby are very defective 

 in comparison W'ith many other counties. The first is for the 

 first year of Edward III. It was granted by his Parlia- 

 ment, for the defence of the kingdom against the Scots, 

 and is in a very imperfect condition ; some of the membranes 

 are missing, and many of the entries are illegible. Not until 

 the 14th year of Hen. VIII are there any inter\-ening rolls of 

 importance, and again, after this period the collection is 

 very imperfect. 



3. September. 1599. 



a subsidy booke for one entier subsidy Collected 

 w"' in the Hundred^ of Scarsdale and Heigh Peake. 

 Derby ff. The Hundred^ of Scarsdale and Heigh Peake. 



The Estreatf Indented for the payment of the 

 second subsedy granted vnto our soueraigne lady the 

 Queenes Ma''° that nowe is by Act of Parliam' holden 

 at Westm^ in the XXXIX yeare of her Ma''^f raigne 

 contayning the names and fs'names of euery pson 



