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The most Antient Tax we meet with was the Hidage of the Saxons, which the Normans called Tollage deletion & /deletion addition and /addition in later days went under the name of fifteenths, deletion & /deletion addition and /addition came to be a fixed sum in every Parish; The Word Tollage was indeed by the Normans us’d for Various Impositions, as we shall see hereafter.

Danegeld

This Tax began in the times of the Anglo Saxons & continued many Years after the Conquest; Authors differ about the duration of it, the best Writers think it was annual before the Conquest, deletion & /deletion addition and /addition only levied occasionally afterwards, it was generaly 1s on every note +V-p /note Hide+ of Land, from which however Church Lands were exempted; Maddocks is of opinion that this was a settled Revenue deletion & /deletion addition and /addition accounted for like the Yearly Terms of the Counties till after the 2d of Henry II. in this King’s Reign the Danegeld

In Middlesex was . . . . £85,,1,,6 In Surrey . . . . 185,,6,,0 In Essex . . . . 252,,6,,0 In Huntingdonshire . . . . 70,,5,,0.