Poll Tax, Sheffield, West Riding Of Yorkshire 1379

[Bayleaf]

[Guest Gramps]

Thanks for posting that. There are some well known Sheffield surnames in that list.....Drake, Webster, Wheat, Lambert, Machon, Pawson, Scargill etc., but strangely no Staniforths, at least that I can see.

Did you notice the scribe lapsed into French part way through his labour and then switched back to Latin ?

[RichardB]

Thanks for posting that. There are some well known Sheffield surnames in that list.....Drake, Webster, Wheat, Lambert, Machon, Pawson, Scargill etc., but strangely no Staniforths, at least that I can see.

Did you notice the scribe lapsed into French part way through his labour and then switched back to Latin ?

I'd need that transcribing being rubbish at French and having no idea when it comes to Latin.

[ukelele lady]

What is the iijd after most of the names ?

[Bayleaf]

What is the iijd after most of the names ?

It's the amount of tax they were liable for. Using Roman numerals, where there was a row of 'i's, they would use a 'j' instead of an 'i' I assume to make it more easily read. The 'd' is pence, as in pre-decimal currency, so

iijd = 3d = three old pence.

[Bayleaf]

Thanks for posting that. There are some well known Sheffield surnames in that list.....Drake, Webster, Wheat, Lambert, Machon, Pawson, Scargill etc., but strangely no Staniforths, at least that I can see.

Did you notice the scribe lapsed into French part way through his labour and then switched back to Latin ?

I had noticed that Gramps. I wonder if it was a lapse of concentration, or something more deliberate. If so I can't imagine what it would be.