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Keele Hearth Tax 1666
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KEELE 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 It was repealed in 1689, although it was producing £170,000 a year, on account of its unpopularity, the tax being especially obnoxious because of its inquisitorial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.
Keele Constablewicke. Hearthes Chargeable.
Mr. Sneyd, Junior Twenty Foure
Mrs. Hurt Five
Richard Eardley Three
John Wright One
Edward Morgan Three
Thomas Cowdale One
William Rowley One
Law. Rowley One
Randle Burslem Two
John Heath One
Hugh Vennables One
Isaac Heath Three
Edward Reeve One
Ralph Reeve One
Widdow Sympson One
John Crew One
John Meeson Two
Richard Sillitoe Three
John Hewett One
Thomas Peake Three
John Cotton Two
Robert Beech One
Roger Lowe Two
William Beech One
Matthew Wright One
Humfrey Morgin One
John Sneyd One
Isaac Cooper Two
Edward Wright Two
Richard Reeve One
John Peake, de Heath One
Thomas Hassall One
John Berkes One
John Stubbs Three
Thomas Boulton One
John Ford One
William Lycett One
Randle Harding One
Richard Halfepenny One
John Peake Two
Widdow Peake Three
Vincent Heaward One
John Viccars One
Not Chargeable.
John Rowley John Brewer
Thomas Mercer William Jenkinson
John Reeve John Browne
Hugh Cooper Thomas Hassall
John Pepper Anne Smith
Edward Forde Edward Heath
Widdow Steedeman William Bourne
Edward Harding Ralph Hewett
Eliz. Stanford John Cooper
Thomas Ford Margrett Sellitoe
John Steedeman John Rowley
By Rich. Eardley and Rich. Reeve Constables.