Levedale Hearth Tax 1666

LEVEDALE 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 It was repealed in 1689, although it was producing £170,000 a year, on account of its unpopularity, the tax being especially obnoxious because of its inquisitorial character. 

Levedale Constablewick.   Hearthes Chargeable. 

Humfrey Giffard,               Three

Richard Ferryman             One

Thomas Warde                 Five

William Byrche                 Three

Francis Leese                   Two

Hugh White                       One

Edward Ingram                 One

Thomas Fallowes             One

Francis Stanley                One

                                                                                                                  

                                                        Total  18                                                                                                                                       v

 

These following are certified for not to bee Chargeable according to the Acte  (vizt.). 

Gregory Horton

By Nath: Hynde,                  Minister 

Edw. Reade                        Churchwarden

William Walker                    Ouerseer,

Allowed by

E. Littleton & Ric: Congreve    Justices of the Peace. 

By William Bradbury                Constable.