This Somerset roll contains the assessment for the twentieth of granted to Edward III between 15 and 23 September 1327. The roll is undated but the assessments were probably made between 5 October 1327, when the first commissions were issued, and 3 February the following year, when the first half-payment was due at the Exchequer. Presumably this assessment was used for all three of the collections of this grant.
This document is in excellent condition. The feet of some rotulets (less than one quarter) have suffered some damage, but the remainder of the piece is entirely legible without the aid of an ultraviolet light.
The damaged remains of the missing section from the foot of rot 1 is currently at E 179/364/13 Part 3. From this, and comparison with other documents, it is clear that the partially destroyed name at the foot of the left hand column on rot 1d (following Lyncombe) is for either North or South Stoke, and is followed on the detached fragment by the other. However, research of the individuals would be required to calculate which is which.
Following conservation the fourth rotulet has been re-bound back to front, therefore the dorse has been indexed first, followed by the face.
The manuscript entry 'North Chew' (rot. 17d) has been presumed to be an error for 'North Elm'.
The manuscript entry 'Dodelestone' (rot. 20d) has been assumed to represent Cothelstone, in 1303 this place had the form 'Codelston'.
Four sub-collectors are named at the end of the assessment for Horethorne hundred (rot. 40) with their own assessments.
The township of Corscombe (rot. 42) has been supplied in the index to this document where it appears to have been accidentally omitted. Having written the name of the hundred the scribe appears to have forgotten to enter the name of the first township. The places assessed in the present piece appear to be in the same order as those in the assessment of the fifteenth and tenth in 1336 (E 179/169/9).
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