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WALTON 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 It was repealed in 1689, although it was producing £170,000 a year, on account of its unpopularity, the tax being especially obnoxious because of its inquisitorial character.
Walton Constablewick. Hearthes Chargeable.Widdow Sanders Two
Mr. Addyston One
Edward Dale One
Henry Bagley One
Ralph Eldershawe One
Richard Fothering One
Mr. Drakeford One
Widdow Wattwood One
Francis Twigg Two
Richard Allen One
Edward Tomson One
Edward Adderley One
Richard Styche Two
John Twigg One
William Leeke One
William Sharpe Two
Thomas Twist One
Edward Harding One
Thomas Allen One
John Allen One
Hugh Twigg Two
William Hales Two
Thomas Dodsworth One
Michaell Harding Three
John Harding One
William Bradbury One
Thomas Twigg Two
Francis Hoult One
Thomas Clegg One
Richard Mynors Two
Richard Twigg Two
Total 42 v
These following are certified for not to bee Chargeable according to the Acte (vizt.).
Edward Twigg John Leeke
Edw. Kent Mary Withnall, vidua
James Dale Thomas Eggington
William Twigg Isabell Twigg, vidua
Eliz: Robbinson, vidua Edw. Brassington
Roger Ball Thomas Jumpe
William Brereton John Howell
Anne Henne, vidua Dorrothy Stepleton
Thomas Henne John Till
By Tho: Tooth, Minister
Rich: Wattwood, Churchwarden.
Allowed by
C Wolseley & R. Milward, Justices of the Peace.
By John Hardinge, Constable.