PRO E179/240/259 Part 4
Return to Swaffham Prior Records
The poll tax of 1377 is a noted genealogical reference in most English counties as it preserves the names of the inhabitants of entire parishes. Unfortunately, the records for Cambridgeshire are in a poor state and preserve only the names of the parish warders. Things are even worse for Swaffham Prior, where even these names are mostly illegible.
Swaffham Prior
Adam Hurt
William Landys
Peter Halyw***
Cambridgeshire Subsidy Rolls,
William M. Palmer, Goose & Son. (1912), p.112.
Palmer notes that names are
illegible.
C.C. Fenwick, The Poll Taxes of 1377, 1379 and 1381. Part 1. Oxford
University Press. p.78.