Fifteenth and tenth was a form of parliamentary taxation in medieval and early modern England, most commonly levied from the late 13th century until the 17th century. Originally conceived as a fractional tax on movable property,Fifteenths and tenths, 1334, from a A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 4, Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1959. Hosted on British History Online it later became a fixed-sum tax assessed by locality rather than by individual wealth.
References
Further reading