I have the honour to lay before the Society the transcript of a record, which, in my opinion, contains some valuable, historical facts. It is divided into three parts. The first part contains the return of a subsidy granted by parliament to king Edward III. in the fifty-first year of his reign A. D. 1377, of four pence to be paid by every lay person in the kingdom, as well male as female, of the age of fourteen years and upwards; real mendicants only excepted. The grant of this subsidy may be seen in that valuable repository of historical information the Rolls of Parliament, vol. II. p. 364. This return states the sums of money which had been levied by the collectors of this tax in the different counties, cities, and principal towns in England, separately; and the number of persons at that time being in each county, city and town, subject to the payment thereof.