The Parliamentary Subsidy of 1450

The English parishes and knights' fees tax of 1428: a study in fiscal politics and administration

“…He suggests that this tax was characterized by serious administrative difficulties which resulted in its yielding only £3,000 . In contrast, Richard Virgoe believes that the Commons imposed the parishes and knights' fees tax on the government as a way of avoiding conceding a fifteenth and tenth . Moreover, he does not believe that this tax was marked by administrative problems and states that it yielded over £12,000 …”