Editorial note — Part II. Essays Of Representative Government In England, From The Conquest Till The Reign Of The Tudors. (continued 2)

[Footnote 21: An eighth, a tenth, &c. was a money tax levied on counties, cities, boroughs, or other towns, and so called because it was the eighth, tenth, &c. of the sum at which these counties, towns, &c. had been anciently valued under the reign of William I. Thus each town knew what it had to contribute. The valuations were contained in the Doomsday Book. (Parliam. Hist., vol. i. p. 83.)]