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DERRINGTON 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 It was repealed in 1689, although it was producing £170,000 a year, on account of its unpopularity, the tax being especially obnoxious because of its inquisitorial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.
Derrington Constablewick. Hearthes Chargeable.William Sherratt Sixe
William Payne One
Richard Ashton One
William Johnson One
Widdow Barton One
James Bratt One
Widdow Bratt One
John Tagge One
John Starkey One
Thomas Ransay One
E. Eldershawe , One
Widdow Spencer One
John Stanley , One
Thomas Eldershawe . Two
Total 20
By John Stanley, Constable ibidem.