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Balterley Hearth Tax 1666
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BALTERLEY 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 It was repealed in 1689, although it was producing £170,000 a year, on account of its unpopularity, the tax being especially obnoxious because of its inquisitorial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.
Baulterley Constablewicke. Hearthes Chargeable.
Thomas Scott Seaven
Mrs. Wood Sixe
Richard Kelsall Sixe
Mrs. Thicknes Foure
Margrett Boughey One
Thomas Richardson Two
Ralph Deane One
John Lunt One
Robert Scarratt Two
Robert Horton Two
John Shawe One
Thomas Hilditch One
John Lawton One
Ralph Maddew Two
James Bromley Two
Robert Frickring, Senior One
Robert Frickring, Junior One
Tho. Brereton, Senior One
Tho. Brereton, Junior One
George Bromley One
Robert Lawton One
Ralph Cowes Two
Ralph Bostocke One
Nathaniell Ridley One
Margrett Ridley One
James Madewe Two
Ralph Moore One
Total 53
These following are certified for not to bee Chargeable according to the Acte as aforesaid (vizt.).
Edward Hunt Lawrence Hilditch
John Andrewes Thomas Lawton
William Scarratt James Bromley
Anne Scarratt John Kettle
By Zach. Cawdrie, Rector ibidem.
Thomas Turner, William Browne Churchwardens.
Allowed by :
Sir John Bowyer, E. Mainwaring Justices of the Peace
By vs Edw. Hunt, Geo. Bromley Constables ibidem.