1524 Wavendon Subsidy Roll
This is the Wavendon entry from the Subsidy Roll of 1524, as published by the Buckinghamshire Record Society Vol. 8, in 1950 – edited by Prof. A. C. Chibnall and A. Vere Woodman.
The Rolls give the amounts the local landowners had to pay in extra tax that year. King Henry VIII had called for more money to help finance his wars in Scotland and France. It was proportional to the value of land or goods owned, so you can see who the major landowners in the village were at that time. Everyone was eligible apart from the Clergy, who had already had a separate tax collected from them for the same purpose.
Cardinal Wolsey had compiled a listing in 1522 of anyone who owned land or goods worth £20 or more. The assessors would have been local men appointed to the task. Both land and goods were assessed for taxable value and if an individual had both, the one which provided the most to the King’s coffers had to be paid.
The National Archives website has a “Purchasing Power” calculator, which shows that £1 in 1520s is just over £520 today.
Thomas Ellis £2
Richard Philip £3
John Philip £1
Thomas Newman £3
William Paret £2
John Nasshby £2
William Taptow £1
Richard Kent £2
Henry Blude £1
William Lawe £4
Sibell Richardson £16
John Browne £1
John Bentley £1
Hugh Servant £1
John Sheperd £18
Thomas Parson £1
Henry Goodcave £2
John Parat £1
John Heyne £2
William Holdworth £1
Thomas Lyting £4
John Parat £1
John Angull £1
William Candy £1
Lawrence Maybury £3
Anthony Crowford £1
Thomas Lord £1
Thomas Franklyn £2
John Barbor £2
Thomas Whitridge £1
John Quynte £3
Robert Quynte £1
John Verney £1
John Nixson £2
William Tilcok £3
John Gregory £3
Thomas Hull £2
Richard Hull £3
John Candy £2
Margaret Stratton £1
John Stratton £1
William Powlyn £1
Page last updated Feb. 2023.