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 06, 2000

Surname, Forename	Amount Taxed	Notes
Robt COBBE	iij
John BALDE	iij
John COOPEER	iiij
Willm BATTELY	ij
George BURTON	iiij
John REYNOLDS	ij
Stephen CHAPMAN	j
Rich NEWBY	j
Mary LONGE wid	ij
John SHERASHAM	j
John PERRY	j
Robert GOODWYN	ij
Francis BERT	v
Clement BACON	iiij
Willm BARBER	iiij
John MAPES	j
Reuben HOBART	v
Robert PROCTER	v
Jacob YESTRISSE	iij
Tho RIX	iij
Edward WRIGHT	j
Eliz ROGERS wid	j
Willm BANES	ij
Tho MORTON	ij
..... KEMPE Barr	xv
Cissell POTTER	iiij
Willm FUNNELL?	iij
Robt KIDMAN	iiij
Robt BRUNDISH	iij
John MAYES	iiij
John BROWNE	j
Elizabeth BUTLIFFE or BOTLIFFE	ij
John GILBERT	iij
Willm FRANCIS	iij
Peter GOODROME	iiij
Willm MARJEROME	v
John MORPHEW	j