326 Answers to numher of t>ence Number of Collection of Peter's pence Taxation marks Ploughlands Attungs Skara stift Mean 1319—32: 6.209 Mean 1333—50: V'iisfergotland Dal \'armland 6.640 830 1.660 13.280 146 1.168 246 1.968 73 584 123 984 1.026 2.052 16.416 8.208 7.778 The tax from the 16th century shows for the bishoprics an assessment of exactly (25.48+20.52) 46 hunds while the figures 2X10.199) of collected Peter's pence indicate an assessment of 800 2X7.778 25.49+1 19.45=44.94 hunds. 800 For the remaining bishopric of Växjö there does not exist any taxations of the same kind as in the list of the 16th century, the only source here being the figures of collected Peter's pence, which for the period 1319—50 show an annual average of 1.250 pences exacted in the bishopric and meaning the equiv2X1.250 alent of ( in the three bishoprics of Götaland thus indicates an assessment at (44.94+3.12) 48.06 hunds or nearly exactly the same number that has l)een assumed for the Svea-parts of the country. 3.12 hunds. The total amount of Rome tax 800 In spite of this coincidence the figures of taxation in the 16th century list indicate, that it is the amount of 30 marks which has been the basis of the härad, corresponding to 60 ploughlands or 480 attungs, and that the härad of 480 attungs was fundamentally subdivided into six parts of 80 attungs or 10 ploughlands, answering to a taxation of 5 marks. That the härad of the Göta-parts of Sweden had a basic territory. which differs from that of the hund in the Svea-parts, does not however necessarily lead to the assumption that some fundamental difference existed in the norms of subdivision, occuring in the two parts of the country. The difference could have been only terminological and conditioned by the different forms of military organizations prevailing in the two parts. Supposedly the lands in
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy MjYyNDk=