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THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. 



[Book II. 



important industry in Newmarket in those days as it 

 was in later times.* 



The earhest return of the taxation of Newmarket 

 preserved in the Record Office, belongs to the time of 

 Henry VIII. It relates to the lay subsidy granted 

 to the English Blue Beard in the twenty-second and 

 twenty-third years of his reign. The roll is very 

 much torn and faded ; the sums levied and collected 

 are obliterated, and only a few names are decipherable, 

 viz. : Thomas Borowdale, Thomas Dove, Thomas 

 Markent, Johane Whytall, and John Archer. 



By a similar document for the thirty-seventh year 

 of his reign, it transpires that the valuation of the 

 property in Newmarket (Suffolk) was assessed at 

 ^163 i2)S. /\.d., upon which the amount of taxes col- 

 lected was £"] I Si-. ; and in the division in Cambridge- 

 shire the sum collected came to ^12 6^. /\.d.^ 



By comparing the subjoined transcriptions it will 

 be seen that very little change had taken place down 

 to the reien of Edward VI. : — 



37 Henry VIII. Newmarket, Suffolk. 



ASSESSMENT. 



for his goods ;^I5 



Of Edward Norton 



Of John Rowse . . „ 



Of John Byers . . „ 



Of John Kyrley for his lands and tent^ 



Of William Cook . for his goods 



Of Ric. Berdall 



Of John Scallworthy . „ 



Of Margaret Fonston 



^10 



£1^ 6s. 8d. 



£6 . 

 £iT) 6s. 8d. 



£S . 

 £8 



TAXES. 

 15^. 

 10^-. 



1 3^. 4d. 



12s. 



13s. 4(/. 



3s. 4d 



Ss. 4d. 

 \^s. 



* Chancery Proceedings, Elizabeth, G. g. No. 44. MS., P.R.O. 

 t Lay Subsidies, sxJa 8. MS., P.R.O. 



