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trict within the county can be made — in 28 instances out of a 

 possible 135. The asterisk indicates those accounts that appear 

 in the " Descriptive SHps " as of uncertain date, and that I 

 have been able to date with absolute certainty — six in all. To 

 these must be added two others which are not represented in 

 my extracts: 158/21, Northumberland, is assigned by "De- 

 scriptive Slips " to the 3rd collection of the grant of the 22nd 

 year, but the familiar formula of "no estreats of penalties 

 under the statutes of labourers," added at the end, proves 

 conclusively that it is the grant of the 25th year; 211/25, 

 York, N. R. is assigned to the 2nd collection of the grant of 

 the 25th year by character only ; a similar formula at the end 

 puts the matter beyond doubt. 



In printing these extracts I give the full heading of the first 

 tax printed, that for Bedford, and after that only the names a 



of the collectors, unless, as sometimes happens, the phraseology 

 of the heading differs from that usually found ; I print the tax 

 first in each case and the apportionment second, even when 

 this is not the original sequence. The references, unless other- 

 wise specified, are to Lay Subsidies ; the Roman numerals refer 

 merely to the order in my list. 



