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
Willm HEYWARD esq	vij
Barnard LEVEROCKE gent	v
Mathew GOLD	vj
Tho FILBECKE	j
Stephen GOOCH	iiij
Barthol CHAPMAN	j
John LOMAN	j
Edm HEYWARD	j
Richard BOWLES	ij
Michaell SYER	ij
John STONE	j
Richard TROTTER	ij
Mary PENTNEY	iiij
Willm FRANCIS	ij
Edm BENSLY	j
Eliz FRANCIS wid	ij
John FRANCIS	j
Anthony DOBBS	ij
Tho BOWLES	ij
John TOWELL	ij
John PERFECT	ij
Peter LEVEROCKE	j
Martha HAYES	j
James TAYLER	iiij
Silvester LAVEROCKE	iiij
Michael ELVIN	ij
Robt NORTON	j
Robt COOPER	j
John BUSH	j
Rebecca LAVEROCKE	j
Francis TURNER	ij
Tho GODFREY	j
Tho BENSLY	j
John LAVEROCKE	j