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
Henry DRURY cler	iij
Tho WATTS cler	v
Peter BRERETON gent	iij
Peter LAWES	vj
Willm WOODYARD	ix
John CLARKE	ij
John HOWLINGE	j
Josuah BENSLY cler	iiij
Barth HUNTINGE	ij
George BETTS	iij
John SPOONER	ij
Susan HEAST	j
John BARWOOD	ij
Thomazine DALLISON	ij
Ignatius CUSHAN	iij
Tho YALLOP	ij
Peter BRERETON	vij
Sam HOWLINGE	ij
Charles HACKSON	v
Eliz CURSON	j
Tho WOODROWE	ij
Edw COPPS	iiij
Willm NORMOLL	ij
Margery HARVY	j
Mrs Ann WALLEP	iiij
Gyles HARCOCK	iiij
Tho and Wm HOWLINGE	ij
Edw HENDRY	iij
Robt WARNER	iij
Beniam RICHES	iij
Stephen HOBERT	iiij
Nich YALLOP	vj
Mary WARNES	ij
Hen LAWES	j