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the rate in 1319 was higher. It was during these same years, 1318-109, 
that the revaluation of the property of the clergy of the province of York 
was being carried through, the reduction in values being considerable. 
By the year 1322 Lancashire had again recovered, paying £386 Ios. 
24d. to the tenth and sixth,t but in comparison with the amount 
in 1307 this was far too small, as the rate was about double that of 
Edward’s first year. Yorkshire seems to have suffered very severely, it 
being noted on the roll that 128 vills in the North Riding had been so 
burned and devastated by the Scots that they had no goods which might 
be taxed. The total amount for the whole country fell to £1,896 7s. 
13d., a very serious loss since 1307.2 The truce for thirteen years 
signed in 1323 brought a much needed rest to the northern counties 
for a time.3 
When Edward III came to the throne in 1327 the trouble with Scot- 
land broke out anew, for the Scots were anxious to gain a recognition 
of their independence from the young king. Once again war broke out 
and once again the north was ravaged in the summer of 1327.4 When 
in September of that year the collectors of the twentieth, granted in 
Parliament, were appointed, it was not even thought necessary to select 
men for the counties of Cumberland, Northumberland and Westmore- 
land.s Both Lancashire and Yorkshire contributed to this subsidy, 
Lancashire paying £162 11s. }d. and Yorkshire, £1,573 18s. 24d., 
both of these amounts being far below the sums paid during the first 
year of Edward II.° After the treaty of Northampton, March, 1328, 
there was another interval of peace which was broken by Balliol’s attempt 
to gain the throne of Scotland. This led to reprisals on the part of the 
Scots though too late to affect seriously the assessment of the tenth and 
1L. T. R. Enrolled Accounts, Subsidies, No. 14, m. 15d 
2 Jbid.,m.14d. The totals for the Ridings in 1319 and in 1322 were as follows: East Riding, £866 
6s. to}d. (1319); Lor10 48. ofd. (1322); West Riding, £645 135. 1d. (1319); £623 os. 12d. (1322); North 
Riding, £524 5s. 6td. (1310); £242 5s. 11d. (1322); City of York, £171 8s. 11d. (1319); £120 15s. sd. (1322). 
3 Lane, A., op. cit., I, 232; Calendar Close Rolls, 1318-23, p. 718. 
4 Mackinnon, Edward III, pp. 18 fi. 
s Calendar Patent Rolls, 1327-30, pp. 172, 173- On the Enrolled Account of this subsidy there is no 
money credited to these counties, L. T. R. Enrolled Accounts, Subsidies, No. 8, m. 1 ff.; while on the memo- 
randa rolls it is specifically stated that nothing came from them; L. T. R. Memoranda Roll, No. 93, m. 1; 
The entry alongside of each of these counties reads, ‘‘de XXma laicorum nec Xma cleri nichil in hoc comitatu.’’ 
6 For these totals see L. T. R. Enrolled Accounts, Subsidies, No. 8, m. 1 ff. 
