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
John TUTHILL cler	vj
Willm TUTHILL	iij
Willm GURNY	ij
Tho DORMER	vj
John PORTER	missing
Willm FRANCIS	ij
Robt SPARKE	iiij
Sam POTTER	j
Jeffry HENDRY	j
Willm HOLMES	iiij
Willm STANNARD	iij
Eliz DAWSON	ij
Tho SWANN	ij
James DIX sen	ij
John SWANN	v
John GURNY	ij
Eliz WORMILL wid	iiij
Tite RICHARDS	v
John SHERWOOD gent	vij
Mrs Ann WARD	xij
Edm JERMIN	iiij
Robt LINSEY	iiij
Edw POINTER and Eliz HARRIS	iiij
Humfry FARMER jun	iij
Tho EDWARDS	iij
Tho DALLANT	vj
Lewis HUSON	j
John ABBOTT	j
Tho MANINGE	j
Tytus BURRELL	j
James DIX jun	ij
John JESSUPP	j
Robt WOOLARD	iij
Tho RICHARDS	iiij
Owen HARRIS	ij