rate-book

It appears that Niccolo Amati entered, in the year 1641, the age of his pupil Andrea Guarneri in the parish rate-book as being fifteen years, thus supplying the hitherto unknown date of his birth.

The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators George Hart

Nicholas encouraged his crusading zeal by granting him a new ecclesiastical tenth for six years, a tax made memorable by the fact that it occasioned the stringent valuation of benefices, called the taxation of Pope Nicholas, which was the standard clerical rate-book until the reign of Henry VIII.

The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) Reginald Lane Poole 1892

It is a stout, florid man, a young farmer or farmer's son, riding-whip in hand, who produces a red-bound rate-book from

Hodge and His Masters Richard Jefferies 1867

The test to ascertain whether a man should have a vote or not, is laid down by Mr. Cobbett as follows: -- "When a man comes to vote, the Church-wardens who have the charge of the ballot-box ask his name; the Overseers look into their rate-book, to see whether he be a TAX-PAYER; finding his name there, they bid him put in his ballot, which done, home he goes to his business.

Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 3 Henry Hunt 1804