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 04, 2000

Surname, Forename	Amount Taxed	Notes
Tho DAVY	j
Rich COCK	j
Tho ROBINSON	j
John DYNES	ij
Ann HOWLETT wid	vj
Nich PESCOD	v
Edw ELLIS	vij
Henry FRANCIS	iiij
Francis HOWLETT	j
Robt RUDD	j
Susan DRAKE	j
Gregory PEEKE	iij
Andrew BRERETON	vij
James COCK	ij
Martyn CAUSY	j
Alice CAWSY wid	ij
Tho ALLYN	iij
Willm LYON	j
Rich BROWNE	j
Gregory ALLEN sen	j
John PARMINTER empty	iiij
Andrew BRERETON gent empty	iij
Robt LAMBERT	j
Ann JOHNSON wid	ij
Tho YOUNGS	iij
Tho AGGES	ij
Millecent BARKER wid	v
John SPARSELL	ij
Mary WHITMORE	j
John DISNEY	ij
Gregory BLANCHFLOWER	ij
Eliz BUSHELL wid	ij
Henry PEEKE	j
John CRANE	j
Tho PEARSE	iij
John HOWLETT sen	iij
Anthony KEED	ij
Tho ELLIS	iij
Willm DRAKE	j
Francis DOWE	iij
Robt NORTON	iij
Tho EDWARDS	j
John NORTON	j
Willm EDWARDS	j
Robt GUNTON	j
Symon ALLYN	iij
John DUNTHORNE	j
Ben DORMAN	ij
Edmund COULSELL	ij
Willm COE	ij
Nicholas WOLTERTON	ij
Mary BUSHELL wid	j
John MARTYN empty	j
Henry LEECH	iij
Ann HOWLETT sen	iiij
Tho PRENTICE	vj
Peter REYNOLDS	iij
Willm RIX	iiij
Willm CHAMBERLINE	iiij
Mary GAGE wid empty	j
Watts RIX	vj
Eliz PORTER wid	j
John CURLE	j
Katherine BLITHE	ij
Willm BLYTHE	ij
Willm MARTYN	ij
Willm BLYTHE empty	j
Willm CLARKE	ij
Willm BARKER	iij
John TRAPPETT	ij
John HOWLETT jun	ij
Rose HOWLETT	j
John NAYLES	iij
John CORNELIUS	ij
Robt SMITH	ij
John GRANT	j