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 07, 2000

Surname, Forename	Amount Taxed	Notes
Robt SPENDLOWE cler	vj
Robt DOCKELL	iiij
Thomas TEASDELL	iij
Will CANNON and Francis SKINNER	iij
Mathew CALLOW	j
Symond COOKE	ij
Willm BALY	ij
John GRAVER	ij
Priskey ISYBARE	j
Ann RICHES	j
Christopher SMITH	j
Chist SERJENT	j
Luke ASHMONHALL	ij
John CALLOW	j
Sam FULLER	ij
Lawrence WRIGHT	j
Robt ASHMONHALL	ij
Richard CALLOW	j
John CROW	ij
John POWLE	j