" The amount to be paid was originally regulated by a valuation made under the direction of Pope Innocent IV by Walter, Bishop of Norwich, in 1254, later by one instituted under commission from Pope Nicholas III in 1292, which in turn was superseded in 1535 by the valuation, made by commissioners appointed by Henry VIII, known as the King's Books, which was confirmed on the accession of Elizabeth and is still that by which the clergy are rated.
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This arrangement was confirmed by subsequent statutes passed in the reigns of Edward I and Edward III respectively, and the practice was ultimately settled in its present form by the statute Payment of Annates, etc., 1534.