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ENFORCEMENT OF THE STATUTES OF LABOURERS 



district by district, and then, after the total, add a formula 

 which varies in details, but is substantially as follows : infra 

 quas summas continentur .... (figures) de Unihus, exitibus 

 et amerciamentis seruientium et operariorum, sicut memor- 

 atur in quodam rotiilo rotidis de particulis huins compoti 

 consuto.^ The additional rotiihis, when in existence (it 

 has often disappeared), shows the share of penalties re- 

 ceived by each district, and is either in the form of the ori- 

 ginal memorandum of apportionment " or of a schedule of 

 ihe amount of the estreats delivered to each set of sub- 

 collectors ; ^ sometimes the two sets of figures, tax and 

 penalties, appear on consecutive membranes, with no dis- 

 tinct rotuhis.* Very commonly, however, on the mem- 

 brane containing the tax account, the collectors add, op- 

 posite to the amount of the tax for each district, a formula 

 somewhat as follows: inde de Xma et XV ma .... 

 (figures), de excessu lahorariorum . . . (figures)."^ In 

 accounting at the exchequer for the tax and for the penal- 

 ties the collectors must show receipts from the justices for 

 payment of their salaries and also from the subcollectors 

 for the distribution of the penalties ; several bundles of both 

 types of receipts are in existence." Thus, an action is 

 brought against the collectors of the West Riding, because 

 in accounting for the distribution of large sums of penalties, 

 they had shown no acquittances ; they finally produce in court 

 449 receipts signed by constables and various others, which 



'In collectors' accounts, both original and enrolled, /a5«w. 



■^App., 2,22>-2>^A; 355- ^App., 322-323; 347-348. 



*App., 340-342. 



''App., 349. In one case the following system is used: sum of the 

 penalties, 6d.; sum of the tax, 24s.: " et .sic deficiunt " 23s. 6d. Cf. 

 app., 361. 



*For the first, cf. p. 112, note 2, and for the second, see app., 334- 

 335, and 342-343- 



