DISPOSITION OF THE PENALTIES 109 



in the "form" is as follows: the justices of labourers in 

 each county, at the end of the session, in the presence of the 

 collectors and of the most distinguished knights and Ser- 

 jeants of the county, shall certify to the total sum of the pro- 

 ceeds of the session; representatives from each hundred 

 shall be chosen to make sworn reports as to the relative 

 impoverishment of each district; on the basis of these re- 

 ports, the joint committee, composed of all the above, shall 

 apportion this total in such a manner that each district 

 according to its needs shall be "allowed" a share; the 

 collectors shall then receive the estreats from the justices 

 by a system of indented receipts and shall proceed to levy 

 the penalties as scheduled, and to collect in each district the 

 difference between the amount of the tax as originally as- 

 sessed and the amount " allowed " to it in penalties by the 

 committee of apportionment. In accordance with the re- 

 troactive clause of the measure, it is specified that arrears 

 of penalties not already paid in aid of the grant of 1348, 

 and also all penalties imposed during the gap between the 

 two grants, shall go towards the present subsidy ; ^ and 

 that any estreats already received at the exchequer shall 

 be now delivered to the collectors.^ 



197) , I have been unable to find. As my book goes to the press Gas- 

 quet's new edition reaches me but proves to contain the same errors. 



It is to be remembered that in the earlier experiment the commis- 

 sions to collectors had not mentioned the statutes of labourers but had 

 been followed by a supplementary series of writs; cf. p. 100. 



"'Tut le Profit provenant des fyns, issues, amerciments et excesses 

 levez, et a levers " {Rot. Pari., ii, 238a) becomes in the " form " "toutz 

 les fynes . . . que sount ou serount leuez ou prises des laborers . . . 

 de la feste du Pasche drayne passe tanques a dreyn terme du payement 

 des dismes et quinzismes susditz " and is then followed by the provision 

 for arrears. It is to be remembered that the triennial of 1348 had ex- 

 pired at Easter, 1351. 



'After the end of the grant of 1348, process had been begun by the 



