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NORBURY 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 It was repealed in 1689, although it was producing £170,000 a year, on account of its unpopularity, the tax being especially obnoxious because of its inquisitorial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.
Norbury Constablewick. Hearthes Chargeable.
John Skrymshire, Esquire Twenty
Mr. Spendlove Three
Eliz: Crosse Foure
James Farechild One
Tho: Patbone One
William Lowe One
Rich: Lee Two
Edward Rylandes One
William Bird One
William Barnett One
Mr. Francis Coyney One
Tho: Rathbone One
James Cottrell One
Rich: Ward One
John Scutt One
James Rathbone One
George Barnefeild Two
Thomas Freind One
John Massey One
Henry Lowe One
James Estweeke One
John Stokes One
Humfrey Picken One
James Rathbone One
John Levett One
Mary Reade One
Blackmans house One
Thomas Rathbone One
Total 54
Not Chargeable.
James Cottrell Mary Barnes
Andrew Gryme John Knight
By Peter Puilons, Churchwarden
William Berd & Ellis Thomes Overseers
By Roberte Barnefeild, Constable.