Search Currently displaying: 1 result. Clear the search You've searched for: Year of Publication: "1959" x Search term Sort by: RelevanceTitleOldestNewest Volume 39: The taxation of 1297: a translation of the local rolls of assessment for Barford, Biggleswade and Flitt hundreds, and for Bedford, Dunstable, Leighton Buzzard and Luton by A. T. Gaydon, (1959) The introduction explains the method of taxation in the thirteenth century. By the 1290s, taxes were levied as a fixed proportion of the value of a person’s goods: a ninth, a fifteenth, a thirtieth or other fraction, as ordered. The ...