All of these communal assessments are expressly associated with the levy in Sussex of the poll tax granted in 1678. Most of them are dated between 6 June and 20 July 1678, and all of them give a date for the assessment's delivery into the Exchequer; the dates of delivery all fall within the period 22 June to 30 July 1678. Rotulets 2, 5, 6, 7 and 9 are undated, but the latest delivery date of these is 30 July 1678 (rots. 5, 6 and 9). Those three assessments, therefore, might conceivably have been written as late as that date, but can date from no later.
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