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Moreton & Wilbrighton Hearth Tax 1666
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MORETON & WILBRIGHTON 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 It was repealed in 1689, although it was producing £170,000 a year, on account of its unpopularity, the tax being especially obnoxious because of its inquisitorial character.
Moreton & Wilbrighton Constablewick. Hearthes Chargeable.William Ball Eleaven
John Fox Sixe
William Astley Five
John Harper Foure
Thomas Peplowe One
Robert Walker One
Edward Coxe Two
Richard Gravener Two
Jos: Hudson Two
Widdow Pye One
George Crumpe Three
George Jackson One
William Webster One
John Wynne Two
Richard Symmons One
Francis Addams One
Thomas Lockett One
George Bradbury One
Thomas North One
Olliver Casky One
Thomas Hudson Two
Richard Kibbell One
William Ditcher One
John Yearsopp One
Robert Turner One
Richard Hudson One
Thomas Talbott (of Moreton, d. 1674) Two
John Fletcher One
Adam Huntbach Two
Total 60
The following are certified for not to bee Chargeable according to the Acte
John Dikes John Williams
John Barnes Tho: Sumerfort
William Butler Tho: Parram
Widdow Bayly Tho: Talbott
John Rylandes John Growe
John Offlowe Evan Williams
Tho: Croft Fr: Twigge
John Ditcher
By Tho: Reynoldes, Minister ibidem
John Foxe Churchwarden
Allowed by
E. Littleton & Ric: Congreve, Justices of the Peace.
By John Wynne, Constable