Bradley Hearth Tax 1666

BRADELEY CONSTABLEWICK HEARTH TAX 1666

The Hearth Tax or chimney-money was a payment to the king of 2s. on every hearth " in all houses paying to church and poor," first levied in 1662. It was repealed in 1689, although it was producing £170,000 a year, on account of its unpopularity, the tax being especially obnoxious because of its inquisitorial character. 

Bradeley Constablewick.   Hearthes Chargeable. 

Francis Comberford, gentleman          Seaven

John Stanley                  Three

John Huntbach               Two

William Tewe                  One

Robert Cartwright          Two

Tho: Willington              One

Francis Horton              One

Tho: Burd                      Two

Tho: Cartwright             Two

Edward Coxe                One

Tho: Turner                   One

Edw: Cartwright            One

John Brindley               Two

Francis Gardner           One

John Woodcocke         One

Widdow Hodgsons      One

Tho: Aston                  Two

                                                        Total  31

 

These following are certified for not to bee Chargeable according to the Acte as aforesaid (vizt.). 

Robert Spencer                  William Gardner

Edw. Warde                       Ellen Jenkes

Edw. Jenken                      John Wright

James Smith                      Ellen Shirley

Kath. Jenkes                     Mary Cotton

William Shirley                  William Parker

 

By Robert Spencer,                        Minister 

Tho: Burd & William Addams,       Churchwardens. 

Allowed by

E. Littleton & R. Congreve,         Justices of the Peace. 

By Edw. Cartwright,      Constable.