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English translation: one whole unit (not a fraction or a multiple)

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English term or phrase:complete
Selected answer:one whole unit (not a fraction or a multiple)
Entered by: inmb

21:23 Feb 2, 2012
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Law/Patents - History / English law, Middle Ages, taxation
English term or phrase: complete
The reluctance of subsequent parliaments to grant unconditional
supply was even more marked. The parliament of 1445-6 at first
granted only half a tenth and fifteenth. Later, when a further
one and a half tenths and fifteenths were granted, the rate of
allowance for impoverished towns was raised to Ł6,000 for each
complete tenth and fifteenth (i.e. Ł9,000 for that grant). Further
measures of appropriation for household expenses, this time on
the issues of wardships, marriages and vacant temporalities were
made in the parliament which first met on 12 February 1449.
Moreover, this assembly not only restricted its grant to a mere
half tenth and fifteenth (less Ł3,000) but was emboldened to demand
a large-scale resumption as the price for any further grant. Its
persistent agitation for on act of resumption finally led to the
dissolution of this parliament at Winchester on 16 July 1449.

(B. P. Wolffe, Acts of Resumption 1399-1495)

What is the precise meaning of COMPLETE in this context? How is the tax and allowance calculated? Many thanks for your suggestions.
inmb
Local time: 21:44
one whole unit (not a fraction or a multiple)
Explanation:
Tenth and fifteenth (desime and quinsime) were the rates of taxation on movable goods levied from the 1330s onwards in England. They refer to proportions of the value of the goods: one-tenth (1/10) or one-fifeenth (1/15). The tenth was paid by towns represented in parliament, and the fifteenth by shires (not represented in parliament).

The respective rates were set as some fraction or multiple of the tenth and fifteenth: so here we have half a tenth and fifteenth (which amounts to a twentieth and a thirtieth) and one and a half tenths and fifteenths (three-twentieths and a tenth, respectively).

So a complete tenth and fifteenth just means exactly one whole tenth and fifteenth, neither a fraction (less) nor a multiple (more).

http://tudorhistory.org/glossaries/t/tenth_and_fifteenth.htm...
http://books.google.es/books?id=FSvAegniXsUC&pg=PA288&lpg=PA...
http://books.google.es/books?id=zhEn77SlKU4C&pg=PR25&lpg=PR2...

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Note added at 11 hrs (2012-02-03 09:14:48 GMT)
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I did not address the question of the allowances mentioned in the text, and how they were calculated. These allowances, also known as "reliefs" or "abatements", were sums distributed among impoverished towns, as the text implies. So when parliament agreed that the towns and shires would contribute more in tax (one and half tenths and fifteenths instead of a half: three times as much), the allowance was correspondingly raised, and was linked to the tax rate: £6000 per whole/complete tenth and fifteenth contributed. This sum (a great deal of money in that period) was a total to be distributed among towns according to need. But this way of calculating the allowance (a rebate, if you like) applies only to this particular period.

For further details on this, see http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=15722 .
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Charles Davis
Spain
Local time: 21:44
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4 +7one whole unit (not a fraction or a multiple)
Charles Davis
2full (tenth)
José J. Martínez


  

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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5
full (tenth)


Explanation:
They want to imply total amount but it is already a fraction, so they mean a full fraction in this case it is a cut-off point...

José J. Martínez
United States
Local time: 12:44
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
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one whole unit (not a fraction or a multiple)


Explanation:
Tenth and fifteenth (desime and quinsime) were the rates of taxation on movable goods levied from the 1330s onwards in England. They refer to proportions of the value of the goods: one-tenth (1/10) or one-fifeenth (1/15). The tenth was paid by towns represented in parliament, and the fifteenth by shires (not represented in parliament).

The respective rates were set as some fraction or multiple of the tenth and fifteenth: so here we have half a tenth and fifteenth (which amounts to a twentieth and a thirtieth) and one and a half tenths and fifteenths (three-twentieths and a tenth, respectively).

So a complete tenth and fifteenth just means exactly one whole tenth and fifteenth, neither a fraction (less) nor a multiple (more).

http://tudorhistory.org/glossaries/t/tenth_and_fifteenth.htm...
http://books.google.es/books?id=FSvAegniXsUC&pg=PA288&lpg=PA...
http://books.google.es/books?id=zhEn77SlKU4C&pg=PR25&lpg=PR2...

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Note added at 11 hrs (2012-02-03 09:14:48 GMT)
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I did not address the question of the allowances mentioned in the text, and how they were calculated. These allowances, also known as "reliefs" or "abatements", were sums distributed among impoverished towns, as the text implies. So when parliament agreed that the towns and shires would contribute more in tax (one and half tenths and fifteenths instead of a half: three times as much), the allowance was correspondingly raised, and was linked to the tax rate: £6000 per whole/complete tenth and fifteenth contributed. This sum (a great deal of money in that period) was a total to be distributed among towns according to need. But this way of calculating the allowance (a rebate, if you like) applies only to this particular period.

For further details on this, see http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=15722 .

Charles Davis
Spain
Local time: 21:44
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Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 52
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Thank you!
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thank you, as always, for your accurate explanation.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Martin Riordan
9 mins
  -> Thanks, Martin
agree  Veronika McLaren
25 mins
  -> Thanks, Veronika
agree  Alexandra Taggart: 'was raised to Ł6,000 for each IN ORDER TO complete tenth and fifteenth'./Or "TO complete" - it is a verb, isn't it?
37 mins
  -> Thanks, Alexandra, but I don't think the sentence is incomplete. / No, it's an adjective: "each complete 10th and 15th" means "each whole 10th and 15th": an allowance of 6000 for a whole, 3000 for a half, etc.
agree  Yvonne Gallagher
4 hrs
  -> Thanks, gallagy:)
agree  Tony M: Yes, not a verb at all, just replace it with 'whole' to make it easier to understand today.
4 hrs
  -> Thanks, Tony: that's right :)
agree  Sheila Wilson: Very clear explanation.
9 hrs
  -> Many thanks, Sheila
agree  Phong Le
1 day 10 hrs
  -> Thanks, Phong Le :)
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