DISPOSITION OF THE PENALTIES 107 



but in view of the king-'s necessity they granted him a trien- 

 nial tenth and fifteenth to he paid at Easter and Michaehnas. 

 1352, 53, and 54/ making the stipulation, however, that all 

 forms of money penalties under the statutes of labourers, 

 fines, " excess." issues and amercements, including those al- 

 ready collected, should be allowed them in aid of the tax." 

 The king agreed to the condition for the period of the 

 grant but in modification of the provision in the statute thai 

 the penalties should go to the districts where they had been 

 imposed, he insisted that they should be distributed among 

 the districts according to their relative needs.' 



The abundance of data in existence as to the result of 

 this second experiment makes possible a detailed account, 

 and furnishes a vast amount of information on the relation 

 of the statutes of labourers to the life of the times.* 



^/?oi. Pan'., ii, 237b: " Et puis apres longe trete et deliberation cues 

 par les Communes ove la Commuiialte, et I'avis d'ascuns des Grantz a 

 eux envoiez, . . . si vindrent les dites Communes devant notre Seignur 

 le Roi et touz les Grantz en Parlement . . . ." 



^/did., 238a: "' C'este la forme du Grante de trois Dismes et Quin- 

 zismes grantees a notre Seignur le Roi ore en cest present Parlement 

 par les Grantz du Roialme et par tote la Commune . . . sur la Condi- 

 tion que ensuyt . . . ."' 



The commission to the collectors (app., 269) refers to the application 

 of the penalties as granted by the king, "ad requisicionem eiusdem 

 communitatis de assensu prelatorum, ducum, comitum, et baronum. 

 Many years later, the grant is described as made by the king, "par 

 avisement de son bone Counseill " (Pof. Pari., ii, 409b); the first state- 

 ment is probably nearer the truth. 



^ PoL Pari., ii, 238a: " II plest a notre Seignur le Roi & a les Grantz 

 de la terre que la Commune eit touz les fyns, amerciements, & issues, 

 forfaitz des ditz laborers & artificers, contenuz en I'Estatut fait au dar- 

 rein Parlement, en eide de lour Disme et Quinzisme durant le temps 

 des dites Dismes et Quinzismes triennales; sauves a chescun Seignur 

 lour fraunchises sanz nulle emblemissement. Et I'entent notre Seignur 

 le Roi & de son Conseil est, que ceste Eide soit en oeps des Povres des 

 Villes & lieux gastes, et autres qi plus de meister en ont, par avis des 

 Justices a ceo assignez." 



' For an account of the manuscript sources, see app., 255-258; 312 314. 



