Fifteenth and tenth

Fifteenth and tenth was a form of parliamentary taxation in medieval and early modern England, most commonly levied from the late 13th century until the 17th century. Originally conceived as a fractional tax on movable property,[1] it later became a fixed-sum tax assessed by locality rather than by individual wealth.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Fifteenths and tenths, 1334, from a A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 4, Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1959. Hosted on British History Online
  2. ↑ Schofield 2008, pp. 27–28.

Further reading

  • Harriss, G. L. (1975). King, Parliament, and Public Finance in Medieval England to 1369. Oxford: Clarendon Press (Oxford University Press). p. 554. ISBN 9780198224358. Retrieved 31 December 2025.
  • Schofield, Roger (2008). Taxation Under the Early Tudors, 1485–1547. Oxford & Malden: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9780631152316. Retrieved 31 December 2025.
This page is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.