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COLWICH 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 It was repealed in 1689, although it was producing £170,000 a year, on account of its unpopularity, the tax being especially obnoxious because of its inquisitorial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.Colwich Constablewick with itt's Hamletts. Hearthes Chargeable.
Colwich
Sir Charles Wolseley Sixteene
Robert Blythe One
Mr. Edward Moore Sixe
Robert Smith Two
Robert Archer One
Dannyell Browne One
Widdow Royley One
John Winfeild One
Samuell Hickins One
Bishton.
William Attkins Foure
Roger Wilkes Foure
Mr. Baker Foure
Ralph Milles One
Robert Attkins Two
Thomas Hitchins Two
Widdow Snowe One
Richard Rowley One
John Robinson, formerly Rich. Hood One
Edward Gray One
William Hipkins One
Samuell Smith One
Henry Harding One
Anthony Brookes One
Richard Bamstead Three
Edward Austen One
William Pate Three
Robert Smith One
Widdow Heath . One
Mr. Schoolecroft Foure
Walter Gilbert One
Robert Hickinson Two
Francis Gilbert One
Francis Bett One
John Allen One
Thomas Hodgson One
Robert Massey Three
John Ashley One
Rich. Hood, formerly Eliz. Gilbert One
Morton.
Mr. Crompton Three
Thomas Coleclough Two
Widdow Wright One
Edward Smith One
Jacob Goodwin One
Lewes Jackson One
Tho. Clarke and John Hill Two
Little Haywood.
Thomas Jorden Three
Francis Pickstocke One
Henry Hide One
Thomas Heanes One
Widdow Launder Two
Thomas Chedulton One
Richard Walker One
Matthew Falkner One
Anthony Horderne Two
John Horderne, formerly William Horderne One
Widdow Clarke Two
Shuttburrowe.
William Anson, Esquire Nine, formerly returned two too many by mistake
George Bradbury One
William Sherbrooke Two
John Moore Two
John Fisher One
Thomas Feildhouse, formerly Thomas Harrison Two
Richard Clarke One
Nicholas and Thomas Beckett One
Henry Cooke, now Harrisman One
George Nixon . One
Edward Bee One
George Launder Foure
John Allen One
John Sedgley One
John Launder One
Richard Rea One
Mrs. Chetwind Sixe
John Dickinson One
Thomas Archer One
William Ansley One
Edward Hill One
Widdow Harriman One
William Warde One
William Bonsor, Senior One
Thomas Launder One
George Nicken One
Richard Floyd One
William Bonsor, Junior One
Haywood Magna.
Thomas Whittbye, Esquire Five
Mr. Milles, formerly Mr. Greene Eight
Francis Hall One
Anthony Hill One
Jervis Clarke One
Edward Bickford One
William Taylor One
John Cooke Five
Joseph Cadman Two
Ralph Bould Three
William Moore One
Edward Hill Two
Richard Tittley One
Robert Biddulph, alias Rawlyns One
John Wetton One
Richard Ashley One
William Clarke One
Richard Wotten One
Francis Thornes One
Widdow Brookes One
Hixon.
John Gretton , : Foure
Thomas Gryme One
Richard Averill One
Thomas Ancill Two
Hugh Sale One
Thomas Webbe Foure
Thomas Beardulph Two
William Sale One
George Bett Two
John Jenkins One
George Griffen Two
Thomas Averell One
Henry Elsmore One
John Tomkinson One
Thomas Kyngston One
Robert Brindley One
Ellinor Thornes One
Total 220
These following are certified for, not to bee Chargeable according to the Acte as aforesaid (vizt.).
John Greatolder John Frodswall
Francis Gilbert Edward Trubshaw
William Walker Rich. Frodshall
Thomas Rushton William Bett
Thomas Chubberke John Gould
Joane Keene Edward Parker
Ralph Yeowin John Hare
Law. Massey Richard Parker
Fortune Allen John Dearne
Anne Pencke Edward Leese
John Barly John Parker
Thomas Moule William Roe
Eliz. Gilbert William Wattson
Grace Hitchner Joane Rowley
George Vnion Edward Dale
Mary Dale John Robinson
Widdow Harris Widdow Nelson
John Attkin
By Augustine Schoolecroft, Vicar ibidem.
Edward Gray, Churchwarden.
Rich. Clarke, Overseer of the poore.
And approved by : C. Wolseley and, Wal Chetwynd Justices of the Peace
: Thomas Gryme and Anthony Horderne Constables