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MADELEY 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 It was repealed in 1689, although it was producing £170,000 a year, on account of its unpopularity, the tax being especially obnoxious because of its inquisitorial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.
Madeley Constablewicke. Hearthes Chargeable.
Mrs. Offley Twenty
Mr. John Egerton Seaventeene
William Oulton One
John Talbott Two
Mr. Bayley Eight
Mrs. Weston Foure
Richard Bromshall One
John Wharton Two
Christopher Perkinson Two
William Foxe Foure
Mr. Vize Foure
Mr. Page One
Mr. Whittmore Sixe
John Woodhouse Three
William Snape One
Richard Hoult Five
Mr. Whitehall Three
Edward Vernon Two
John Bloore One
William Bromley One
Robert Hawkins Foure
John Lightfoote One
John Bettson One
Peter Greene One
Isaac Hawkins One
Ralph Lea One
John Morryes One
John Sidway Five
Richard Pott One
Widdow Steele One
Robert Alman One
George Gibbons One
John Baddaley Two
Richard Gibbons One
John Bromshall One
George Bloore One
William Snead One
John Steele One
Edward Taylor Two
Nicholas Taylor Three
Randle Steele One
John Heath One
Randle Halmarke One
Richard Corne One
Richard Bloore One
John Bettson One
Widdow Weston One
Widdow Poulston One
Thomas Heath One
John Birkes One
Robert Whitehall Three
John Ence One
Peter Hixon Foure
John Gibbons One
Anne Barnes Two
William Tymmins One
John Hawkins One
John Ravenscroft One
Thomas Amson One
Nicholas Buxtons One
Hugh Madeley One
John Wilkinson Two
Mr. Lownes for the Viccaridge Two
Richard Rockett Two
Samuell Phillipps One
Widdow Poulston One
Total 154
These following are certified for not to bee Chargeable (vizt.).
Thomas Lightfoote Thomas Hulmaker
Widdow Cotton Richard Lightfoote
William Snape, Senior William Lightfoote
Rowland Robinson Eliz. Snead
John Perkinson Mary Tyler
Widdow Bloore Anne Butterton
Widdow Thorpe Widdow Bloore
John Sheyd Anne Platt
Allice Heath Eliz. Plymley
John Bettson John Smallwood
Margrett Sandbich William Rodes
Humfrey Pott Thomas Robertes
John Greene John Noden
Reynold Steele Thomas Pestount
Thomas Bourne Jane Dea
James Birchawe Richard Bloore
William Hawkins William Butter
John Leaman Rich. Hulmaker
Ellen Bloore William Hulmaker
Randle Sandbitch
By John Ince, Constable.