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 GILES cler	vj
Mr John ROBINSON	vj
Mr Tho RIVETT	iij
Henry WRIGHT	iiij
Mr Charles HILTON	iiij
Peter FLATTMAN	ij
Nicholas ALDEN	iiij
Tho CORBOLD	iiij
John SPARKE	ij
Robt HUMFREY	j
Edm RICHES	iij
John PYE	ij
Symon FOX	iij
Joseph MEASANT	ij
Richard STANTON	j
Robt ALGER	iij
Isaac ELMER	ij
Willm GARROOD	iij
Richard PITT	ij
Wid GEDGE	j
Tho SUTTON	ij
Nich CLARKE	ij
Tho STANTON	ij
Willm WRIGHT	v
Owen SKINNER	j
John TURNER	ij
John MOWLINGE	j
Mary WARD wid	iij
Tho GOBBETT	ij
Gregory CLARKE	j
George BUTTEN	ij
Nath CROBDIN	j
Nich CLARKE sen	ij
Henry WELTON	j