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The Subsidy (‘relief’) of 18 December 1566
Parliament opened on 30 September 1566, and on 18 December the commons granted a subsidy to be levied over two years. Individual taxpayers, as well as guilds and corporations, were taxed on moveable goods worth £3 or more at 12d. per pound for the first payment, and 10d. per pound for the second payment. Aliens had to pay double these rates — 2s. per pound for the first payment and 20d. per pound for the second — and were taxable on all moveable property. Native-born persons enjoying an income from land of 20s. per annum or more, were taxed at 16d. per pound for both payments, and aliens were to pay 2s.8d. for each payment on lands worth 20s. or more. All aliens who had no taxable property in either category were subject to a poll tax of 4d. for the first payment and 2d. for the second. The first payment was to be assessed by 10 February 1567, certified at the Exchequer by 10 March 1567 and paid by 1 April 1567. The second was to be assessed by 10 February 1568, certified by 10 March 1568 and paid by 1 April 1568. A book giving details of the commissioners and collectors of this subsidy, and another listing the collectors and the dates on which they gave bonds to guarantee their collection, are at E.179/282/4-5.
Source: TNA E179 database.