Convocation Subsidies 1290-1666
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 December 2023
Summary
From 1290 until 1663 the convocations ofCanterbury and York regularly granted subsidies to the king, so regularly in fact that meetings were often called for that purpose only and the term ‘convocation’ came to be understood as implying it. The first levy was assessed according to traditional calculations, of which the valuation of Norwich was the most important, setting the standard for several dioceses. In 1291 Pope Nicholas V authorized the so-called nova taxatio, which then became the standard for most of the country and remained in force until 1535. In that year Henry VIII authorized the Valor ecclesiasticus, which was used from then until the separate clerical taxation ceased. From Christmas 1535 the clergy also paid (in addition to their periodic subsidies) their first-fruits to the crown, and an annual tenth, both of which were converted to ecclesiastical use only in 1704. In other respects, the Valor remained in use until it was superseded by the Ecclesiastical Commission in 1836. This list gives the dates on which the subsidies were voted, the amount and the terms (dates) on which payment was due, in whole or in part.
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- Records of Convocation , pp. 321 - 342Publisher: Boydell & BrewerFirst published in: 2023