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
Robt THEXTON cler	ix
Mr WORTS	v
Robt FLIGHT	vj
Robt HARMER	iiij
Clippesby BERRY	iij
Richard OLIVER	ij
Edw HUGGIN	ij
John COOPER	iiij
Willm FARY	ij
Tho WORTH	iiij
Tho HARWOOD	ij
Willm FAIREFAX	j
Tho HEWSE	j
John TAYLOR	iiij
Tho GRIMES	iij
Edmund CLAYDEN	ij
Tho PRIMROSE	ij
John HARPER	ij
Edward PIGHTLIN	j
Andrew SHARPE	j
John GUGLE	j
Willm PEAREMAN	j
Robt BOND	j
George JARVIS	iij
John HIPER	j
Stephen DURRANT	ij
Tho GOULDINGE	j
Willm BETTS	iiij
Willm PLATTINGE	iij
Thomas WITHERS	iiij
Willm MASON	iij
Willm WARNER	ij