Stephen Dowell
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 70
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ...parliament, to deliver into the king's chancery the names of the persons to be appointed collectors for the 27 Hen. VIII. c. 10. a Par. Rolls, iv. 486. VOT.. I. 1 city or borough, who, when appointed by the king by his letters patent, became accountable for their receipt directly to the exchequer. A similar practice may have prevailed as regards the collectors of the fifteenths in the counties, but in consequence of the remissness of the knights in sending in names or other causes, it happened that not unfrequently recourse was had to the city and borough list of names, and the nominees of the burgesses were appointed to be not only collectors of the tenth in the city or town for which their names had been returned, but also collectors for the fifteenth in the county in which the city or town was situated. This course was detrimental to the interests, 'to the great loss and damage, ' of the county. The commons, in 1439, petitioned the king in parliament for redress, and the king answered that 'no man dwelling within any city or borough ' in which the practice of sending up names for appointment as collectors as aforesaid prevailed, should be appointed collector of the fifteenth of the shire without a property qualification in the shire, outside the town, of h1. per annum, ' unless he may spend in the shire, out of the said city or borough, in lands or tenements to the value of h1. by the year, clear of all charges and deductions.' 1 The king appears to have been desirous to appoint the collectors selected by the representatives of the county or the town as the case might be, and did not interfere in questions relating to local assessment. For instance, in the case of Oxford, in 1389, the devout orators, chancellor, guardians, provosts, .