SCOTCH RAIDS AND TAXATION OF NORTHERN ENGLAND 241 
fifteenth granted in September, 1332. Northumberland, however, paid 
nothing to the subsidy, though collectors had been appointed for that 
county.: After the raids began anew it was given several extensions of 
time for the payment of the tax, and finally, in June, 1335, it was excused 
all payment.?- Cumberland and Westmoreland now paid £538 14s. 
sd. and £189 8s. 104d. respectively. The strife of 1332 and 1333 had 
the effect of again wasting the north, and in 1334 the three border 
counties paid nothing to the subsidy of that year, the writs to the collec- 
tors of the tenth and fifteenth for those counties being vacated on the 
patent rolls. 
After the campaign of 1335 in the north had come to an end, the border 
counties, if we can judge from the taxation returns, enjoyed a larger 
measure of peace than they had experienced for nearly a generation. 
From the tenth year of Edward III to the end of his reign the three 
northern counties regularly paid their share of the national subsidies 
whenever they were levied.4 After the year 1334 Cumberland was, 
seemingly, the only one of the three to suffer much from the inroads of 
the Scots and even it always paid a certain amount when subsidies were 
granted.’ For a time, however, the total of its taxation decreased. In 
1336 the men of the county paid to the subsidy, a tenth and fifteenth, 
£554 8s. 63d.° During the next year Parliament granted the king a 
tenth and fifteenth to be collected annually for three years. Cumber- 
land paid only £370 13s. 14d., the reason for this decrease being, as 
stated in the roll, that the Scots, the enemies of the king, had invaded 
the county after the tax had been granted, and had perpetrated much 
burning, depredation, and destruction of the goods of the men of the 
country, so that they were unable to pay as much as before the raid.7 
«L.T.R. Enrolled Accounts, Subsidies, No. 8, m. 2 ff.; the appointment of the collectors is found in 
Calendar Patent Rolls, 1330-34, PP- 357, 484, 485- 
2 Calendar Close Rolls, 1333-37, pp- 85, 303- Calendar Patent Rolls, 1334-38, p. 114. 
3 Calendar Patent Rolls, 1334-38, pp. 38-40; there is, furthermore, no record of any money having been 
handed in at the Exchequer, L. T. R. Enrolled Accounts, Subsidies, No. 8, m. 4 ff. 
4 The returns may be found in L. T. R. Enrolled Accounts, Subsidies, No. 8 or in No. 14. 
sIn 1336, and thereafter, Northumberland paid £333 7s. 84d. and Westmoreland £100 15s. 64d. 
L. T. R. Enrolled Accounts, Subsidies, No. 14, m. 22d. and m. 2 3d. Itis interesting to compare these amounts 
with those raised in 1307. 
6 L. T. R. Enrolled Accounts, Subsidies, No. 14, m. 22d. 
7 Ibid., m. 26d. 
