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Whitmore and Hanchurch Hearth Tax 1666
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WHITMORE & HANCHURCH 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 It was repealed in 1689, although it was producing £170,000 a year, on account of its unpopularity, the tax being especially obnoxious because of its inquisitorial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.
Whittmore and Hanchurch Constablewick. Hearthes Chargeable.Edward Mainwaring, Esquire Nyneteene.
Edward Lowe Three
Edward Beardmore Two
John Lownes Two
Isaac Lowe Two
John Brough One
Hugh Davies One
Thomas Walton One
Richard Knight Two
John Coleclough One
Edward Roades One
Edward Asbury One
Edward Higginbotham Two
Thomas Harding One
William Martine Five
William Ferrington Three
John Lowe Two
John Picken One
Thomas Sanders Two
George Beardmore One
John Reynoldes Two
Edward Swynerton Two
Mrs. Frances Bowyer Foure
Richard Bromley One
Robert Meade One
Thomas Eldershaw Two
Edward Peake One
Roger Lowe One
Hanchurch.
Thomas Doody Three
Richard Hazells Three
John Doody, Senior One
Hugh Asbury Two
Richard Goodwyn Two
Richard Foxe One
Joane Foxe One
Thomas Collier One
John Whitehurst Two
Thomas Hazells One
William Dickenson Two
John Doody One
John Collier Two
These following are certified for not to bee Chargeable according to the Acte as aforesaid.
Roger Lowe Margrett Malpas
John Wilson
By Edward Lowe and William Marten Churchwardens.
Edward Peake and Tho. Walton Overseers.
Allowed by :
E. Mainwaring and George Parker Justices of the peace.
By John Lownes, Constable.