What were they: They were a way of obtaining revenue to make up a shortfall in the Crown's revenue.

Time period: 1662-1689

Exemptions: persons who didn't pay church or poor rates ie paupers did not pay this tax. Persons living in a house worth under 20s a yer. Charitable institutions with an annual income under 100 pounds a year. Industrial hearths eg kilns, furnaces etc but smiths and bakers do not seem to have been exempt.

Who paid it: The occupier of the house. If a leaseholder was absent the landlord paid it.

How much: The Tax of a shilling per hearth was payable twice a year.

Therefore a Hearth Tax assessment is a list of persons, arranged by townships or parishes, which shows against each name the number of hearths in that person's occupation.

Initially only taxable persons were listed in the assessments. This was changed in 1663 and from then on both chargeable and non chargeable persons were shown.

Transcribed by: Marg Keable
Date Added: July 05, 2000

Surname, Forename	Amount Taxed	Notes
Frances STEWARD wid	v
Mr Roger HOWMAN gent	iiij
Tho MARKER gent	vij
John POTTER	vj
Robt DYE	vj
Tho MARGETSON	iiij
Adam BALLS	iij
Peter SHACKELL	ix
Hannah BARBER	ij
Nathaniell BRETT?	ij
Azaraiah BRETT	ij
Phillip BARNES	iij
Willm FIRMSBY	j
Tho CLETHEROE	iij
Nich MINNS	ij
Tho WHITTAKER	ix
John SAMPSON	ij
Tho TUDDENHAM	ij
John FREEMAN	ij
John FOUNTAYNE	j
Willm NEALE	j
Willm THORPE	j
Peter LEVERICKE	ij
Susan PLOWRIGHT	j
Alice GALES wid	ij
Richard CULLS	j
Tho COE	j
Lawrence BUSTIN	iij
Tho BALDWIN	ij
Mary DYNNE wid	j