Note 936 — Chapter VI · JOHN AND THE BARONS 1214–1215

Of the value to which these profits had risen some idea may be gathered from the fact that a proficuum of £336: 18: 8 was accounted for as due to the Treasury in 1205 by the sheriff of Staffordshire and Shropshire, of which two counties the united ferm was £413: 12: 4, Salt Archaeol. Soc. Publications, vol. ii. pp. 129, 133. It must, however, be added that this proficuum was reduced next year to £266: 13: 4, and went down further year by year, till in 1212 it was only about £155: 11s., ib. pp. 136, 138, 142, 145, 147, 151, 159. After that year the Pipe Rolls are in confusion till 1218.