Subsidy: 1628

Parliament opened on 17 March 1628, but it was not until satisfactory answer had been made by the king to their grievances - primarily his assent to the Petition of Right - that the commons granted him five subsidies. The subsidy bill was sent to the lords on 16 June and received royal assent before the adjournment of parliament on 29 June.

The tax was to be paid in four instalments. The first two subsidies were to be paid in one payment, and the other three were payable individually. The rates were otherwise the same as those for the previous subsidies. For the first payment, that of two subsidies, individuals and corporations would have had to pay 5s.4d. per pound for moveable goods worth £3 or more, and 8s. per pound for lands worth 20s. or more per annum. Aliens and recusants, paying double these rates, would have had to pay 10s.8d. per pound for their moveable goods, and 16s. per pound for their lands, while the poll tax on those aliens and recusants possessing no estate was 16d. per head.

For the single subsidies levied in the second, third and fourth payments, individuals and corporations were charged 2s.8d. per pound for moveable goods worth £3 or more, and 4s. per pound for lands worth 20s. or more per annum. Aliens paid double these rates (5s.4d. per pound on goods and 8s. per pound on lands), or a poll tax of 8d. per head.

These hefty charges were payable over an unprecedentedly short period of time - less than eight months. The first two subsidies were to be assessed by 30 June, certified at the Exchequer by 9 July and paid by 10 July 1628; the third (second payment) was to be assessed by 20 September, certified by 10 October and paid by 20 October 1628; the fourth (third payment) was to be assessed by 30 November, certified by 10 December and paid by 20 December 1628; and the fifth (fourth payment) was to be assessed by 10 February, certified by 20 February and paid by 1 March 1629.

This East Riding documents explicitly consist of certificates of assessment and individual assessments for the Holme Beacon division of Harthill wapentake for the five subsidies granted to Charles I in 1628.

The condition of the rotulet of E179/204/448, relating to Holme Beacon for the 3rd of the five subsidies, is badly stained, faded, and barely legible. No attempt to transcribe the document has been made.

The condition of the rotulet of E179/204/449, relating to Holme Beacon for the 4th of the five subsidies, is clean and quite legible, and this has been transcribed. The inquest for the division was held at Pocklington on the 13 December 1628, but no delivery date survives. The fourth subsidy formed the third collection of this grant, and was due on 20 December 1628.

The condition of the rotulet of E179/205/458, relating to Holme Beacon for the 5th of the five subsidies, is dirty and faded but legible, and this has also been transcribed. The document was dated, but only part of the date remains. It was evidently compiled on the twenty-fifth day of the month, and the year is given explicitly as 1629. The fifth subsidy formed the fourth and final collection of this grant, and was due on 1 March 1629. Given that documents dated 1629 must have been compiled on or after 25 March, this document was presumably compiled on either 25 March (i.e. New Year's Day) or 25 April 1629. The equivalent document for this collection for the town and county of Hull (now at E 179/204/440) was dated 28 April 1629, and thus a date of 25 April 1629 for this document would appear most likely.


Lay Subsidy, 13 December 1628
E179/204/449

Ellerton

George Buttle esq in bonis

--- Hessle in bonis

John Young in terris