1446-12-01, London

Commission, in terms as above [p. 30], to the abbot of and to William Tresham, esquire, and Thomas esquire, the knights for the county of Northampton in the Parliament, or to any two of them, pursuant to the grant the said Parliament of a fifteenth and tenth (subject to the of 6000/.) and a moiety of fifteenth and tenth (subject the deduction of 3000/.), payable a moiety of a fifteenth and at Martinmas last, another moiety at Martinmas next and residue, the other moiety, at the Martinmas then following, appoint and assign among the impoverished towns, cities and in the said county two-thirds of the sum of 2731. 10s. 113d. the rateable share of the said sums of 60001. and 3000/1. to be and to certify the collectors of the second and third as soon as possible before the feast of All Saints next the distribution of the same.