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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sir Edgar" data-source="post: 511002" data-attributes="member: 7230">A good document to look at may be the the Domesday Book if you can locate it. It's a record of every pig, horse, farm, cooking pot owned by everyone in Britain in the 11th century. I'm not sure if it has taxation rates and such, but its compilation was meant for efficient taxation of all British subjects. That's why it was frequently called the "Doomsday" Book.  "The Domesday book was commissioned in December 1085 by William the Conqueror, who invaded England in 1066. The first draft was completed in August 1086 and contained records for 13,418 settlements in the English counties south of the rivers Ribble and Tees (the border with Scotland at the time)."Here's a link:<a href="http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/I" target="_blank">http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/I</a>'d also be very curious about how exactly taxation was done during the Dark/Middle Ages. From my understanding, many taxes were collected by head and by merchandise coming into towns and cities. Also, rulers would collect taxes from tenant farmers in grain (and coin, if possible). Some villagers would pay in livestock to the local chief, too. But it was generally random and arbitrary. I don't know if there was a standard system or not.</blockquote>