Excerpt from Oxford City Documents, Financial and Judicial, 1268-1665The introductions to the documents contained in this book were probably the last contribution of Thorold Rogers to the cause of research for which he had done so much. On hearing that the Society had the Poll-tax rolls of 1380 and several subsidy rolls of later date copied out for publication, he suggested the addition of the Coroners' Inquests of Edward I's time and some other judicial matter, and offered to edit the whole, an offer of course gladly accepted. He has analysed the Poll-tax returns and shown the nature and extent of the population of the City, small at that time, yet much crowded within the old walls. The total number of those who were above the age of fifteen only amounted to 2035. Allowing for the children, and adding about 1500 for the members of the University, the total cannot have been much more than 5000. He also notes the character of the names - the female name is never Mary, perhaps from reve rence. Nor is there more than one Ann, perhaps for the same reason. The return of the Hearth Tax in 1665 (the year of the Great Plague) shows that, including the Uni versity, there were 5134 hearths, i. E. About 36 hearths to each house, and we must conclude that there were about one and a-hall' times as many inhabitants as hearths, i. E. From 7000 to 7500. It is now about but several large suburbs are included. The notices of the subsidies are frag ments illustrating the financial relation of the City to the Crown. The Masters and Scholars and privileged persons were mostly exempt, or paid in other ways.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.