Rylstone Project
Lodge Farm Barn by Andrew Foreman
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1522 Loan Book Details for Rylstone
Notes on Loans Books
The loan book lists assessments on both lands and goods and gives no note of the tax due to be paid. It contains other material quite extraneous to a lay subsidy return, listing lords and stewards of each manor and bonds of dependence between lords and tenants. Moreover, it describes itself as a loan book, as it includes both the 10th Lord Clifford and his son Sir Henry Clifford, and so predates Lord Clifford’s death in April 1523. This is probably one of Wolsey’s assessments of 1522.
Wolsey’s purpose was two fold; firstly to make a detailed census of the nation's military resources - both manpower and weapons - and, secondly, to obtain a detailed fiscal assessment, possibly to enforce the possession of harness and weapons in conjunction with a scale surviving in the Cottonian Library. A Commission, issued in March 1522, demanded that every township should supply a muster of all adult males with a notice of each man’s lord or master, together with a detailed assessment of all property and individual wealth. This was superseded by a new commission in July with the same financial assessment, but with the declared intention of discovering every man’s ability to contribute to the provision of harness. It also allowed the commissioners to use it to solicit all those with an income over £20 for a loan for the government at a minimum rate of 10% of the assessment. This loan was to be repaid by the next grant of taxation made by the parliament. The assessment was used again in 1523 when the crown demanded loans of 10% for those worth £5-£20. The possession of arms was not recorded for Craven.
Rylstone Loan of 1522
John Norton Cheiffe lorde theire.
Thomas Morehowse to John Norton 40s
Richard Clark to Norton 30s
Henry Kyghtley do 30s
Thomas Mane do 20s
Thomas Settill do 30s
Thomas Ketchyn do 26s 8d
Thomas Weste do 20s
Robert Scheperd do 30s
John Ketchyn do 30s
Henry Blakeburne do 20s
John Kayley do 20s
Robert Kayley filius eius nil
Thomas Ellyson to Norton nil
Henry Gregson do 30s
Richard Gryme do 16s 4d
Thomas Stryke do 16s 4d
Richard Karlyll do 13s 4d
Richard Mylner do 12s
William Graye do 10s
Charles Marton do 20s
John Scotte do 20s
William Ayrton do 10s
Henry Kalbek do 10s
Thomas Clarke do 30s
Reference
Hoyle, R. W. (Ed.). (1985). 'Early Tudor Craven: Subsidies and Assessments 1510 – 1547'. Vol. CXLV. Leeds: Yorkshire Archaeological Society.