The Subsidy Rolls were taxation records of England and Wales that began in 1332 and continued until the Hearth Tax Returns or 1662 to 1674. Each roll was published by county.
As with most rolls of the feudal era, they were an attempt to record population and land holdings for the purposes of taxation. In some cases, they specify the services due from tenants to lords which was typical under the feudal system.
Many of the Rolls have been lost, others have been damaged, those that have survived and are stored in various locations throughout Britain.
County | Source |
Bedfordshire | Bedfordshire Historical Records Soc. 2, 1914; Suffolk Green Books 18.1925 |
Cambridgeshire | C. H. Evelyn White, Lay Subsidy for the Year 1327, n.d. |
Cumberland | J. P. Steel, Cumberland Lay Subsidy . . .6th Edward III, Kendal 1912 |
Derbyshire | Journal of the Derbyshire Archives and National Historical Society 24, 30, 44,1902-22 |
Devon | A. J. Howard, 1524 Lay Subsidy Roll County of Devon, 1967-8 |
Dorset | Dorset Records Society 4, 1971 |
Kent | Arch. Cant. 12 |
Lancashire | Lancashire and Cheshire Records Soc. 27, 31, 1893, 1896 |
Leicestershire | Associated Architectural Societies: Reports and Papers, 19.2, 20.1, 1888, 1889 |
London | G. Unwin, Finance and Trade under Edward III, Manchester 1918; E. Ekwall, Two Early London Subsidy Rolls, Lund 1951 |
Northumberland | Archaeologia Aeliana 3rd Series 13, 1916 |
Shropshire | Trans. Shropshire Archives and National Historical Society 2nd Series 1, 4, 5, 8, 10, 11, 3rd Series 5-7 |
Somerset | Somerset Records Society 3, 1889 |
Staffordshire | Salt Archives Society (OS) 7, 10, 1886, 1889 |
Suffolk | E. Powell, The Rising in East Anglia in 1381, Cambridge 1896; A Suffolk Hundred in 1283, Cambridge 1896; Suffolk Green Books 9, 10, 12, 1906-10 |
Surrey | Surrey Records Society 18, 33, 1922, 1932 |
Sussex | Sussex Records Society 10, 56, 1910, 1956 |
Warwickshire | Dugdale Society 6, 1926 |
Wiltshire | Wiltshire Archives and National Historical Society 10, 1954 |
Worcestershire | Worcestershire Historical. Society, 4 vols., 1893-1900 |
Yorkshire | Thoresby Soc. 2, 1891; Yorkshire Archives Society 16, 21, 74, 1894, 1897, 1929 |