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Knutton Hearth Tax 1666
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KNUTTON 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 It was repealed in 1689, although it was producing £170,000 a year, on account of its unpopularity, the tax being especially obnoxious because of its inquisitorial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.
Knutton Constablewicke. Hearthes Chargeable.
Clayton
Mr. Terricke Eleaven
Richard Baddaley Foure
Hanford.
Thomas Corbett Two
Elizabeth Corbett Three
Thomas Brerehurst Sixe
John Whitehurst Three
Humfrey Dixe One
John Fisher One
George Slayney One
Dimsdale.
Edward Brett, Esquire Nyne
William Bourne Two
Thomas Wattson Three
William Tomkinson Foure
Francis Beech One
Coulton Latham Three
George Berkes One
William Burges, Senior One
William Burges, Junior One
John Eardley Two
Thomas Whittingham Two
John Smyth Five
Roger Rowley One
Knutton.
William Sutton Foure
Thomas Pattson Foure
John Ball One
John Beech Two
John Lowe One
Thomas Hollins One
Mrs. Clownam Three
William Perry One
Richard Webster One
Thomas Lawton One
John Beech Three
John Baddaley Two
William Oarme One
Robert Mason One
Total 93
Not Chargeable.
Ralph Johnson Ellen Ashe
Rich. Greenewood Anne Scott
Anne Armett John Taylor
Eliz. Newton John Fletcher
Anne Geanes Andrew Ball
George Berkes Margrett Knight
Thomas Summerfeild Francis Boulton
Thomas Ball Henry Cooper
Joane Hooper Thomas Boulton
By John Beech, Constable ibidem.