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 POLITICAL HISTORY and money. The subsidy of 1515 produced ^(^150,^'' and that of 1524^203 ; Henry VIII also raised money by loan, and in 1523 Rutland contributed ^(^304, while in 1524 a second loan, raised from persons of smaller means, produced ^283."° In i 524 the musters of Rutland gave a total of 254 archers, 478 billmen, and 103 sets of 'harness.''*^ From another record"^ of the same reign it can be gathered that while the men were ready there was not very much in the way of equipment. In several of the parishes there was no resident gentleman, and few of the men had arms of their own. Thus in Cottesmore the chief landholders were Jerome Markham and John Harington of Exton, whose lands were worth £8 and £^ respectively, but neither resided there. Thomas Duraunt had land to the value of 40J"., and ' harnesse for a man & a Bill,' while William Adams, another 40j-. holder, had ' a Jestorn, a Sallet, w' an appryn of mayle.' Twenty-five landless men follow in the list with varying amounts of personal property, two of them having a sallet and a bill, and one only a sallet ; finally come two ' old men and pore,' without property of any kind, and half a dozen ' yong men and pore.' Seven of the men are marked as archers and sixteen as billmen. Of the resident land- owners the best equipped was John Harington of Exton, who had armour for ten men. Edward Sapcote of Burley had armour for himself and three men and three horses ; also two bills, two bows, and two sheaves of arrows. Francis Browne of Casterton provided armour for six men. Everard Digby, besides holding land in Stoke Dry, was steward for the king in Greetham, Essendine, Seaton, Morcott, Barrowden, Wing, Preston, and Uppingham. The political and religious dissatisfaction which broke out in the Lin- colnshire rising of 1536 no doubt extended to Rutland, but the only recorded connexion of the rising with the county is the fact that Lord Hussey, who was executed for apparent complicity, held Pickworth.^*^ In 1549 there was some considerable disturbance. On 19 August the Privy Council thanked the Marquis of Dorset for the quietness of Leicestershire and Rutland,^" but less than a month later the Earl of Huntingdon wrote that he had already had some men condemned for an intended rebellion in Rutland, and was going to deal with others in Leicestershire next week,^" while the young king includes ' Rutlandshier ' among the eleven counties to which the disturbance spread.'" On the establishment of the new office of lord lieutenant, Rutland was at first associated with Leicester, and later with Derby under the Earl of Huntingdon."^ In 1559 the second Earl of Rutland became Lord Lieutenant of Rutland,"* a position which he already held in Nottinghamshire ; but on his death in 1563 the Earl of Huntingdon again became lord lieu- tenant, and for the next seventy or eighty years Rutland was associated with Leicestershire, usually under the Earls of Huntingdon ; the connexion of the Earls of Rutland with the county from which they took their title was not very marked. One more step remained to be taken to render the county "' L. and P. Hen. Fill, ii (i), 1371. "» Ibid, iv (i), 214, 969. '" Ibid. 972. '" Misc. Bks. (Exch. T.R.), 54. '" Cal. S.P. Dom. 1547-80, p. 36. '" Ibid. 21. '" Lodge, Illustrations, i, 134. "" See the article on 'Social and Economic History,' 223. '" Acts ofP.C. (new ser.), iv, 49 (16 May 1552). '" Diet. Nat, Biog. Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland. 181