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
Symo BARRETT	xij
John DYE	vj
Tho ALEXANDER	iiij
John CARVER	iij
James BOWLER	ij
Robt LOCKE	ij
Nich BURLEY	ij
Thomas FULLER	iiij
Abraham ALLOWSE	iij
Tho GIRLINGE	vj
John BUCKE	iiij
John GOWARD	ij
Robt FLATMAN	iiij
Philip CAPON	xiiij
Robt HAYLE	iiij
Mary LEMAN wid	v
Cleere SEWELL	iiij
John MAPES	v
Nicholas KEMPE	ij
John PILKENTON	ij
Francis GRANGER	iiij
Eustre WACKER	vj
Richard WISEMAN	ij
Jeremy HOWARD	iij
Tho BARRON	v
Henry WHAYTE	iiij
Henry FENN gent	ij
Willm BARBER	j
Tobias .....	vj
Charles WOOL.......	missing
Willm COTES	missing
Tho SENNAM	missing
Willm BROWNE	missing
Eliz DAVY	ij
Tho CORBOLD	iij
Rich DOGGETT	iij
Philip SPALDINGE	iij
Symon JACOB gent	vj
Sigismond BROOKE	j
James THURSBY	ij
John FULLER	iij
John DOWE	vj
Henry MILLS	vij
Tho GLOVER	iiij
Henry SMITH	ij
Obediah SKINNER	iij
Willm STUBBS	vj
Willm ROGERS	vj
Samuell WOODS	x
John CLARKE	iij
James CORBOLD	iij
John WESTGATE	v
John BEASER	iiij
Nathaniell OWEN	ij
Christopher BUNNE	iij
Tho NEECH	ij
John ALDIS	j
Richard DUNN	ij
Robt MILLS	iij
John DOGGETT	ij
Thomazine REVELL	iij
Willm PINCEN	iij
Eleazar DUCKHORNE	vj
James GIRLINGE	ij
John HUBBARD	xj
Tho SPONT	iij
John CROWE	ij
John CORBOLD	vj
Jeremy OLLETT	v
Christopher CHAPMAN	iij
Phillip SPALDEN sen	iiij
John FULLER barber	iij
Tho SMYTH	ij
John DUNN jun	iiij
John BRADBENT	ij
John FARROWE	ij
Robt PARKER	ij
John ASSE	ij
Willm LANGLY	ij
Isabell TRUSSEN	j
Stephen FREEMAN	iiij