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High Offley Hearth Tax 1666
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HIGH OFFLEY 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 It was repealed in 1689, although it was producing £170,000 a year, on account of its unpopularity, the tax being especially obnoxious because of its inquisitorial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.
High Offley Constablewick. Hearthes Chargeable.
Mr. John Fletcher Thirteene
Mr. John Ethell One
Thomas Scutt One
William Brockhurst One
Thomas Cherrington One
John Hanford One
Rich, and Thomas Parton Two
Richard Selman Two
Francis Beard One
Widdow Roden One
John- Skrymshire, Esquire Two
Thomas Hill One
Francis Wright Three
Robert Hand One, but now burnt downe
John Scutt One
Mr. Greenewood Foure
Widdow Cooke One
John Pie One
Walter Furbar One
Widdow Thornton Three
Edward Moreton Two, and one in a voide house
Richard Vpton Two
Henry Smallwood Three
Thomas Glover One
William Steedeman One
Mr. Robert Ethell Sixe
Ralph Bladon One
John Ashe One
William Bayley, for 2 houses Two
Mr. Richard Coyney Two
Robert Jackson One
Law. Jones One
Mr. Hill Foure
John Hope One
John Yeomans Two
John Greene One
Michaell Dymmocke Two
Catherine Walker One
Mr. Francis Stevenson . Five
Total 82
Certified according to the Acte not to bee Chargeable as aforesaid.
William Wilkinson Widdow Roades
Catherine Walker Anthony Cresswell
Richard Dodd, Senior William Davies
John Greene Richard Hodson
George Stanley Edward Cresswell
Thomas Edge Richard Dodd, Junior
Samuel Roades Margery Myles
Nicholas Roades Walter Awkin
James Haughton Widdow Parton
Thomas Hopton Richard Selman, Junior
Francis Talbott Widdow Anderton
William Wolrich Robert Rodes
Thomas Haughton
By William Greenewood, Vicar.
Robert Jackson and Francis Wright Churchwardens.
John Yeomans, Overseer.
Allowed by : Tho. Whittgreaue and George Digby, Justices of the peace.