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Mr. Walters, whose name often appears in the map and who 
was buried in Batheaston Church, 1753. 
In some of the deeds Hedge Mead is also called Hyde Park. 
Four springs are marked on the map in the neighbourhood of 
Camden Crescent, and partly account for the destruction of 
property which took place some years since. 
On the Subsidy Roll of Somerset, in the 13th year of Henry IV. 
By the Rev. C. W. Suickue, M.A. 
(Read January 31st, 1990). 
In the time of the Anglo-Norman Kings the revenue was 
derived from independent sources, over which their subjects had 
no control. The Royal demesnes, or Crown lands, furnished the 
larger portion, but the King also enjoyed the privilege of 
increasing his exchequer by reliefs, Fines upon Alienation, 
Escheats, Forfeitures, Aids, Wardship and Marriages. These may 
be considered the regular sources of revenue, but the extra- 
ordinary necessities of the Government had to be met by 
subsidies, which could only be levied by the authority of the 
Parliament. Landed property formed the chief subject of 
taxation, and the amount levied varied from time to time, but 
four shillings in the pound was the amount fixed in more recent 
times, and finally in 1692 was converted into the present Land 
Tax. 
Upon a subsidy being granted, two Commissioners were 
appointed to sit at suitable towns in the different counties and 
receive a declaration on oath from the landed proprietors in the 
neighbourhood of the value of their estates, and the amount was 
entered in a roll, which was afterwards sent to London, where it 
was deposited in the Chapel at the Tower, and in recent times 
removed to the Record Office. 

