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Two Early London Subsidy Rolls. Originally published by [s.n.], [s.l.], 1951.

Citation:

'Abbreviations', in Two Early London Subsidy Rolls, ed. Eilert Ekwall( [s.l.], 1951), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/early-london-subsidy-rolls/pp398-399 [accessed 26 December 2024].

Abbreviations.

See also Bibliography (Sources).



a	ante (before).
adm.	admitted a freeman.
AF	Anglo-French.
Aldersg	Aldersgate ward.
Aldg	Aldgate ward.
appr.	apprentice.
Bas	Bassishaw ward.
Bd	Bedfordshire.
Bill	Billingsgate ward.
Bish	Bishopsgate ward.
BishE,	BishI Bish Extra, Infra.
Bk	Buckinghamshire.
BreadSt	Bread Street ward.
Bret	Breton.
Bridge	Bridge ward.
Brk	Berkshire.
BroadSt	Broad Street ward.
Ca	Cambridgeshire.
Cand	Candlewick ward.
Castle	Castle Baynard ward.
Cheap	Cheap ward.
Chs	Cheshire.
Co	Cornwall.
ColemSt	Coleman Street ward.
Cordw	Cordwainer ward.
Cornh	Cornhill ward.
Crip	Cripplegate ward.
CripE,	CripI Crip Extra, Infra.
Cu	Cumberland.
d.	dead, died.
D	Devonshire.
Db	Derbyshire.
dép.	départment.
dial.	dialectal.
di. m(ar).	half a mark.
Do	Dorset.
Dowg	Dowgate ward.
Du	Durham.
Edw 1, etc.	(reign of) Edward I, etc.
Ess	Essex.
F	French.
f.	feminine.
Farr	Farringdon ward.
FarrE,	FarrI Farr Extra, Infra.
Flint	Flintshire.
fn	font-name.
G	German.
gen.	genitive.
Gl	Gloucestershire.
Ha	Hampshire.
He	Herefordshire.
Hrt	Hertfordshire.
Hu	Huntingdonshire.
Hy 3	(reign of) Henry III.
in R(o).	in Rotulo, tax not paid.
It	Italian.
K	Kent.
La	Lancashire.
Langb	Langbourn ward.
Langob	Lango bardic.
Le	Leicestershire.
Li	Lincolnshire.
LimeSt	Lime Street ward.
lit.	literally
Lo	London.
m.	masculine.
m., mar.	mark(s).
MBret	Middle Breton.
MDu	Middle Dutch.
ME	Middle English.
mem.	membrane.
MF	Middle French.
MLat	Middle Latin.
MLG	Middle Low German.
Mx	Middlesex.
Nb	Northumberland.
n.d.	no date, undated.
Nf	Norfolk.
Np	Northamptonshire.
Nt	Nottinghamshire.
O	Oxfordshire.
o., ob.	obolus, halfpenny.
ODan	Old Danish.
OE	Old English.
OF	Old French.
OG	Old German.
OHG	Old High German.
OLG	Old Low German.
ON	Old Norse.
ONF	Old North French.
OScand	Old Scandinavian.
OSw(ed)	Old Swedish.
Ports	Portsoken ward.
prep.	preposition.
prob.	probatur.
q.	quadrans, farthing.
Qu, Queenh	Queenhithe ward.
R 2, etc.	(reign of) Richard II, etc.
repr.	representative.
Sa	Shropshire.
sb.	substantive.
Seine-Inf.	Seine-Inferieure (France).
Sf	Suffolk.
sn	surname.
So	Somerset.
Span	Spanish.
Sr	Surrey.
Sx	Sussex.
t	tempore, in the time of.
t	tax paid.
Tower	Tower ward.
vb.	verb.
Vi,	Vintry Vintry ward.
W	Wiltshire.
Wa	Warwickshire.
Walbr	Walbrook ward.
Wo	Worcestershire.
Wt	The Isle of Wight.
Y	Yorkshire.
YE, YN, YW	East (North, West) Riding of Yorkshire.

Table of Contents.



Preface	VII
Introduction	1
Chapter I. Manuscripts	3
Chapter II. The Subsidies	8
I. Subsidy Roll 144/2	8
II. Subsidy Roll 144/3	11
III. Arrangement of taxpayers in the returns	20
Chapter III. The Language of the Rolls	25
Chapter IV. Names	34
I. Font-names	34
II. Surnames	38
Chapter V. The Subsidies and the London Population	43
I. Immigration into London	43
A. From abroad	43
B. From the English provinces	49
II. Tax-rolls and Population	71
III. Wards and Occupations	81
Chapter VI. Assessments	88
I. General remarks (a. Clerics and non-freemen as taxpayers, b. The ward where taxpayers were to be taxed, c. Exemptions, d. << In Rotulo>>, e. Sub-taxers.	88
II. Assessments in the Subsidy of 1292	98
III. Assessments in the Subsidy of 1319	104
IV. Assessments of the Wards	115
Chapter VII. Notes on the Texts and the Commentary	127
Texts	137
I. Exchequer, K. R., Subsidy Roll, 144/2	139
II. Exchequer, K. R., Subsidy Roll, 144/3	205
III. Exchequer (LTR) Enrolled Accounts (E 359), no. 14	351
Appendix. Some occupational words or surnames	354
Indices of Taxpayers	360
Bibliography	393
Abbreviations	398
Index of Wards	402
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