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Lapley & Wheaton Aston Hearth Tax 1666
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LAPLEY & WHEATON ASTON 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 It was repealed in 1689, although it was producing £170,000 a year, on account of its unpopularity, the tax being especially obnoxious because of its inquisitorial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.
Lapley & Wheaton Aston Constablewick. Hearthes Chargeable.Sir Theophilus Biddulph Fourteene
Mr. Robert Hilton Two
Walter Brindley Two
Thomas Nocke Two
Edward Rathbone One
William Walter One
Francis Poole One
William Bridgen One
Tho: Floyd, Senior, for 2 houses Two
William Winshurst One
Robert Anslowe One
John Leeke One
Thomas Allen One
HIDGLAND
Dorothy Fynihouse and her sonne Foure
William Huntbach and his mother Five
Edward Berrey Two
Stephen Aston One
WHEATON ASTON
Marke Heath One
Allice Duncalfe One
William Lockley One
William Bankes One
Widdow Jones One
John Goldsmith One
John Fennyhouse One
Fr: Robinson Two
Henry Clarke Two
Tho: Goldsmith One
John Goldsmith One
John Cornes One
Henry Blakemore One
Fr: Wildy One
Widdow Chambers One
Edward Willey One
John Fleminge One
Tho: Sawyer and Edward Sawyer Three
William Mitton Foure
Francis Jackson Foure
Thomas Mayre Foure
Edw: Edwardes One
William Bourne Three
William Leese Two
Tho: Barnefeild One
Thomas Lovatt Two
John Blakemore One
Mrs. Tomlinson Three
John and Richard Hamblett One
Roger Blakemore Three
Edward Sawyer Two
Matthias Sawyer One
John Pearkes now Tho: Scutt One
Widdow Scutt One
Tho: Cresswell Three
Humfrey Daye, gentleman One
Francis and Tho: Feildhouse One
Hugh Taylor Two
Phillipp Falkner One
Francis Byrche One
Edw: Cartwright One
Tho: Gardlett Two
John Mitton Two
Tho: Blakemore One
Tho: Hawkin One
Richard Mayre Foure
Thomas Cotton Two
John Wildey, Senior One
Anne Worrall Two
Tho: Rodenhurst Three
William Perkes One
Mary Duncalfe One
Rich: Mayre One
Total 129
These following are certified for not to bee Chargeable according to the Acte as aforesaid (vizt.).
Silvanus Garfeild Henry Blake
By Robert Hilton, Minister.
Francis Poole & Edward Sawyer Churchwardens.
Allowed by :
E. Littleton & Ric: Congreve Justices of the peace.
By Humfrey Daye, Constable.