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Whiston & Bickford Hearth Tax 1666
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WHISTON & BICKFORD 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 It was repealed in 1689, although it was producing £170,000 a year, on account of its unpopularity, the tax being especially obnoxious because of its inquisitorial character.
Whiston & Bickford Constablewick. Hearthes Chargeable.Edward Southall One
John Dudley for Whiston Hall Five
Walter Crutchley One
Phil: Hawton One
Stephen Cotton One
William Ward One
George Fox Two
Tho: Green One
Tho: Warde Two
BICKFORD
John Cooper Three
John Tomlinson One
Richard Collins One
William Greene One
John Gesson One
Thrustans Haynes One
Total 22
Not Chargeable
Widdow Allett Rich: Hill
John Webbe John Lauder
John Reading
By Walter Crutchley, Constable.