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Swynnerton Hearth Tax 1666

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 It was repealed in 1689, although it was producing £170,000 a year, on account of its unpopularity, the tax being especially obnoxious because of its inquisitorial 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

 


Swinerton Constablewick. Hearthes Chargeable 

Bazill Fitzherbert, Esquire Fifteene 

Mr. Thomas Broade Sixe 

John Eaton Two 

Olliver Clunton Two 

Richard Machin Three 

Robert Ford One 

Widdow Playnt Two 

Catherine Wedgwood One 

John Beech One 

Thomas Beech One 

Robert Ball One 

Thomas Halfehead One 

John Morryes Three 

Thomas Hawkin Two 

Robert Lightwood One 

Thomas Hassalls Two 

Jeremiah Hassalls One 

Richard Harding One 

John Harding One 

Richard Smith One 

Thomas Godwyn One 

Anne Gosling One 

Edward Gosling One 

Thomas Shawe One 

John Cooper One 

Joane Cooper One 

John Tunckes One 

Richard Hill One 

John Hales Two 

Mary Hodson One 

Thomas Hodson One 

John Goodwyn Two 

Mr. John Luttwich Foure 

 

Hatton. 

Thomas Mosse Three 

Humfrey Mosse One 

William Robinson Three 

John Walker One 

Thomas Peake One 

George Peake One 

Thomas Dorrington One 

Lewes Dale One 

 

Shelton. 

Richard Bayley One 

Edward Bayley One 

Richard Hargreaue One 

William Ashworth Two 

Clare Coleclough Two 

John Reyfley One 

John Bayley Two 

Robert Bayley Two 

Edward Shawe Foure 

Thomas Clewlow Two, and formerly returned 2 too many by mistake. 

Michaell Fallowes Two, the house voyde. 

 

Acton. 

John Thornycroft One 

Tho. Thornycroft One 

John Beardmore One 

Thomas Wilcox One 

Fortune Swynerton One 

Richard Wiggin One 

Edward Lowe One 

Richard Skeilding One 

Hugh Dawson One 

Arthur Lander One 

William Wood , One 

John Barnes Two 

Widdow Barnes One 

John Lowe Two 

John Eardley One 

John Minshaw One 

Randle Powner One 

John Slayd One 

Thomas Lowe One 

William Eardley Two 

William Eardley One 

Henry Austen One 

Widdow Hawkyn Two 

Anne Hammond One 

Richard Holland One 

John Sharpley One 

 

Beech. 

Mr. Ralph Brereton Sixe 

George Walton One 

John Walton One 

Thomas Launder Foure 

William Palyn One 

Stephen Playnt Two 

William Beech Three 

Ralph Wattson One 

Walter Collyer Three 

Richard Rea One 

William Wotton One 

 

Yearnfeild. 

Anne Swynerton One 

Richard Swynerton One 

Thomas Clarke One 

William Tagge Two 

John Playnt One 

Thomas Playnt One 

Thomas Sheabridge One 

John Hitchcocke Foure 

William Palyn Three 

Thomas Vnderwood One 

Widdow Gryme Two 

Richard Hammersley Two 

                                                  Total   172 

 

Not Chargeable. 

John Vnderwood                       Ellen Parton 

William Bloore                           George Byshopp 

Richard Boulton                        Thomas Mayre 

Thomas Jervis                          Thomas Bromshall 

Richard Stevenson                   Robert Wilcox 

 

By John Tunckes, Tho. Hawkins        Constables ibidem.