John Rainwell, fishmonger, mayor 1427, gave tenements to discharge certain wards of London of fifteenths and other payments.
Two-fifteenths were at once granted him, and the nobility were on fire with the anticipation of realising all the glories and the plunder of the past ages.
Henry was bound by honour to give prompt succour to his old friend; he had received from Parliament two-fifteenths for the purpose, and was urged by it to send efficient aid to prevent France from seizing this important province.
He availed himself of the paroxysm of the moment, not only to gather in and garner the two-fifteenths newly granted, but the remains of the benevolence voted last session.
At times of crisis such as the arrival of the Armada the votes were enlarged by granting more tenths andfifteenths and subsidies.
An imposition was also granted of two fifteenthsand four tenths.
Two fifteenthswere granted him; and the better to enable his vassals and nobility to attend him, an act was passed, empowering them to sell their estates, without paying any fines for alienation.
On the 17th December this parliament granted the king twofifteenths and two tenths.
A ching-chang is worth exactly twopence and four-fifteenths of a ching-chang.
The produce of the business was to be three and seven-fifteenths GUR of corn, according to the standard measure of Shamash paid in Kar-Sippar, and one shekel was to be profit.
It appeared in a bill introduced on the 3d of May, requiring a subsidy of four fifteenthsand four tenths, the payments to be spread over a period of four years.
In 1545, twofifteenths and tenths which were granted by parliament are described as extending to "a right small sum of money," and a five per cent.
Bill for a subsidy of four fifteenths and four tenths.
Parliament, although it did not grant the whole amount demanded, yet granted a very considerable sum: it agreed to pay three full subsidies and three fifteenths within a year, if the negotiations were broken off.
Commons grant two-fifteenths of the commonalty, and two-tenths of the cities and boroughs.
But in the 22nd year of that reign the Commons alone granted three fifteenths of their goods, in such a manner as to show beyond a doubt that the tax was to be levied solely upon themselves.
In two or three instances, we find grants of tenths and fifteenths in the statutes, without any other matter, as 14 E.
A supply of one subsidy and two fifteenthswas granted by parliament.
It appears, that the fifteenths formerly corresponded to the name, and were that proportionable part of the movables.
Subsidies and fifteenths are frequently mentioned by historians; but neither the amount of these taxes, nor the method of levying them, have been well explained.
And how can a fit of jealousy be provoked in the case of a person who will split up her affections into fifteen parts, give ten-fifteenths to her children, three-fifteenths to her parents, and the remainder to her husband?
The inhabitants of Totnes were so poor that in 1449 there were only three people in the town who paid as much as twentypence for the tax of half-tenths and fifteenths for the King.
They next requested to be furnished with a copy of the enrolment of the tenths and fifteenths which they had last granted, to learn how they had been raised, which, as money was wanted, was also conceded under protest.
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