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The Societijs MSS. 



and libertye and to levy and gether every of the seyd somme and sommes 

 as aryn the same extracte specyfied of the pety collectour.s wose names 

 hereafter ar declared and to pay the same into the kynges receyte of 

 hys escheker at Westminster to the use of oure sayd soveraygn lorde 

 and also to accompte before the ryght honerable the barons of the 

 kynges escheker accordyng to the acte of the seyd subcydye Deductyd 

 owte of every pounde .vj.d for the ffee [of] the commyssyourneres hygh 

 collector and pety collectors accordyng to the same acte. In wytnesse 

 wherof wee the seyd commyssyourneres to thys present extracte have 

 setto oure seales the day and yere above wrytyn. 

 De Eoberto Barkesdale peti collectore 



hundred! de Horwe]]ysdowne 

 De Henrico Longe peti collectore de 



subcidio hundred! de Wesbery 

 De Willelmo Bevent peti collectore de 

 subcidio hundred! de Warmyster 

 De Cristof ero Asshelock pety collectore 



de subsidio hundred! de Heytresbury 

 De Johanne Wellys peti collectore de 

 subcidio liberatis de Trowhbrygg 



XX}. li. 



xix.s. 



xix.li. iiijs. 



xxxiji^. 



xiijs. 



ij.c^. 



xlviij^i 





xviijd 



xix.li. 



iijs. 



iiijc?. 



Summa totalis subcidii dictorum 

 hundredorum ac libertatis 



Signed at foot : — 



Edmundus Mompesson. 

 Nycholas Sarvyngton. 



Two seals remaining, effaced. 



cxlji^. x\].d. 



johanns bonham. 

 William Grene. 



No. 46. 



The remarkable thing is, at least it seems remarkable, that 

 Thomas Westley was required to collect 141Z. Is., and he got it all 

 ill, as appears by the following quietus : — 



49. 



8 Feb., In the roll of accounts of the Subsidy. 

 1540—1. 



Hundreds of Horewelles Downe, 



Westbury, Wamyster, 



Heytresbury with the liberty of 



Troughbrige in county Wiltes. 



Thomas Westley, gent., collector 

 of the first payment of a certain 

 subsidj^ granted to the now king 

 Henry the eighth by the laity in 

 the 32"*^ year of his reign in the 

 hundreds and county aforesaid, under certain form in the act of 

 parliament thereof enacted specified, as is contained in one part of 

 certain indentures by Edmund Mompesson and others commissioners 

 of the lord the king in this behalf to the treasurer and barons of this 

 exchequer certified Renders account of 14lZ. 12c?. by him received of the 

 said first payment of the subsidy aforesaid in the hundreds aforesaid. 

 In the Treasury 137^. 10s. 6(Z. the eighth day of February in the 32"'^ 



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