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Taxes in this Kings time, and Money Levied by him for Scutage Service, &c.
SOon after his first Coronation, which was on the 27th of May 1199. [ A] [9] 1.1 He had a Scutage Tax of two Marks of every Knights Fee.
In the year 1200. he had of every Ploughland in England [1] 1.2 three Shillings.
In the year 1201. he had two Marks of every Knights [2] 1.3 Fee for Scutage Service of such as had his Licence to stay at home, upon Summons to pass beyond Sea with him.
[ B]In the year 1203. he took a 7th part of all the Earls and Barons [3] 1.4 Goods that left him in Normandy.
In the year 1204. in a Parliament at [4] 1.5 Oxford there was granted to him a Scutage Tax of two Marks and half of every Knights Fee.
In the year 1205. he [5] 1.6 levyed of the Earls and Barons that would [ C] not follow him beyond Sea with their Service (infinitam pecuniam) a vast Summe of Money.
In the year 1207. he took a thirteenth part of all the [6] 1.7 move∣ables and other things as well of Laics as of Ecclesiastics and Prelates, all Murmuring, but none dared to contradict it.
In the year 1210. he forced from the [7] 1.8 Abbats, Priors, Abesses, [ D] Templars, Hospitallers, &c. 100000 l. and from the White Monks or Cistertians 40000 l.
In the year 1211. he had two Marks [8] 1.9 Scutage Service of every Knights Fee, which furnished not out its Service to the Expedition of Wales.
In the year 1214. he [9] 1.10 took of every Knights Fee of those that were not with him in Poictou, as well of [ E] Bishopricks in his hands, as of Wards and Escheats three Marks.
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