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The totals here number 329 people including the mayor, the 

 amount received being £10 Os. 2d. ; thus this poll tax as a 

 personal tax, rather than a property tax as the previously noticed 

 returns may be called^ taking in a lower stratum gives a fuller 

 and more satisfactory i-eturn of the inhabitants. 



Looking at the list several questions arise and some remain un- 

 explained. Thus there is no guide as to the number married 

 and so paying only as one, and curiously there is nothing to guide 

 as to the number of children. Two sons and three daughters only 

 are mentioned, no others appear to have been taxed, yet it can 

 hardly be supposed these were the only children above sixteen 

 years of age. 



As to the probable population, deducting say one third of the 

 above number or 110 for the young and unmarried, the 220 

 couples remaining may be supposed to average another 110 

 children above the age of sixteen, and two children per couple 

 or 440 children under the age of sixteen, making together 660 

 adults and children; the grand total now with the 440 people 

 married being 1,100. Or as a shorter calculation for such a 

 case simply multipy the number of householders by five, then five 

 times 220 make an exactly similar total of 1,100. The "true 

 mendicants," the poor probably being meant, are not included, 

 their number cannot be found in any way. These remarks are 

 made only as suggestions to aid in realising the general position ; 

 the argument must remain open for individual opinion or for 

 further evidence and research. 



The occupations followed will be seen at a glance in the 

 tabulated form. It will be remarked that there is no baker, 

 although the name Pistor appears as an artificer in Stall Street. 

 There is no douber or dauber or builder, but the name Masoun, 

 his occupation not otherwise given, appears in Walcot Street. 

 There is no milner or miller, yet the mill was an important 

 adjunct to the Priory, it may not, however, have been considered 

 a part of the city. There is no bowyer, fletcher or arrowsmith, 



