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Norfolk: Salthouse - 1801-02 - Land Tax
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This tax was based on the value of property etc. and paid by the owner or (sometimes) occupier according to their agreement. It started in 1692 and valuations are based on those done at this date.
For more information on these records see the Land Tax Assessments page.
This Norfolk Record Office document [with the reference C/SCD 2/22/9 1801 and also on microform] is one of the Norfolk Quarter Sessions Land Tax Assessments which are arranged by divisions this one being in Holt Hundred.
Other accounts available
- Churchwardens' Accounts - | |||||
Rates | 1742 | 1762 | 1782 | 1782-1784 | |
Payments | 1721-1749 | 1750-1782 | |||
- Overseers' Accounts - | |||||
Rates | 1796 | ||||
Payments | 1792-1796 | 1796-1801 | |||
- Land Tax Accounts - | |||||
Payments | 1767 | 1801-02 |
[The Salthouse History website (linked from the village page) contains more information on many of the above topics]
[Transcription copyright © Mike Bristow]
From 1798 a printed form was used which contained the following.
The original document had the following headings spelt out in full. They have been contracted to allow for a clearer display.
- Names of Proprietors = "Names of Proprietors
Listed Alphabetically" - Value = "Valuation"
- Exon = "Sums assessed & exonerated"
- Not Exon = "Sums assessed & not exonerated"
The following 4 columns although present on the original have not been transcribed.
- Estate = "Sums assessed of PERSONAL ESTATES STOCK"
- OFF = "Sums assessed of OFFICES ANNUAL AMOUNT"
- YEAR PAY = "TOTAL of YEARLY PAYMENTS"
- QTR PAY = "QUARTERLY PAYMENTS"
Norfolk to Wit
For the Parish of Salthouse
An Assessment for one Year, from the 5th April, 1801, to the 5th April, 1802, made in pursuance of an Act passed in the 38th Year of the Reign of his Majesty George the Third, for granting an Aid to His Majesty, by a LAND TAX to be raised in Great Britain, for the Service of the Year 1798, and made perpetual by another Act passed in the 38th Year of the Reign of his said Majesty and also in pursuance of another Act passed in the 39th Year of the Reign of his said Majesty's Reign, for continuing and granting to his Majesty a Duty on Pensions, Offices, and Personal Estate, &c. for the Service of the Year 1801.
Exon | Not Exon | ||||
Names of Proprietors | Occupiers | Value £ Rent | £.s.d | Value £ Rent | £.s.d |
Bunting Anne | herself | 1.10.0 | 0.6.0 | ||
Cranefield John | himself | 0.10.0 | 0.2.0 | ||
Coston John | himself | 1.0.0 | 0.4.0 | ||
George Wm Clk for Rectory | Widow Spence | 22.0.0 | 4.8.0 | ||
Grey Isaac | ---- | 0.15.0 | 0.3.0 | ||
Hipkins George Bussee & others | John Johnson & Robt Seaman | 37.0.0 | 7.8.0 | ||
Hardy Eleanor Widow | John Proudfoot | 35.0.0 | 7.0.0 | ||
Hardy William Junr | John Jorden | 1.0.0 | 0.4.0 | ||
Howard Widow | Peter Burton | 1.0.0 | 0.4.0 | ||
Keymer Robt for late Abrahams | himself | 1.0.0 | 0.4.0 | ||
Keymer Robt for late Daniels | himself | 1.0.0 | 0.4.0 | ||
Lewis Mary Widow | herself | 1.11.8 | 0.6.4 | ||
Lound William for land | himself | 1.0.0 | 0.4.0 | ||
Do his own | Himself? & Thos Matthews | 1.0.0 | 0.4.0 | ||
Purdy Thomas for his own | himself | 37.1.8 | 11.8.4 | ||
Do for late Lewis's | himself | 3.0.0 | 0.12.0 | ||
Do for Sharmans | himself | 0.15.0 | 0.3.0 | ||
Do for Mitchells | himself | 2.6.8 | 0.9.4 | ||
Do for Lynns | himself | 1.0.0 | 0.4.0 | ||
Do for late Piggs | himself | 1.0.0 | 0.4.0 | ||
Parsons John | himself | 1.0.0 | 0.4.0 | ||
Smith John | James Edwards | 1.0.0 | 0.4.0 | ||
Spence John | himself | 1.0.0 | 0.4.0 | ||
Taylor John | William Dix | 1.0.0 | 0.4.0 | ||
Outsetters | |||||
Zurishaddai Girdlestone Esqr | Thomas Rudd Breame | 11.0.0 | 2.4.0 | ||
Purdy Alice | hereself | 6.0.0 | 1.4.0 | ||
W Mash? } John Johnson } | Assessors |
[End of Document]
Notes
- In other rate documents the following alternative spellings have been seen which appear to refer to the same people/places:-
Purdy/Purdey - Thomas Purdy and John Taylor had paid 15*Yearly rate so that no more tax was payable on the two blocks of land.
See also the Salthouse parish page.
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Copyright © Mike Bristow.
January 2010