Sardon Magna (Great Sardon) Hearth Tax 1666

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 It was repealed in 1689, although it was producing £170,000 a year, on account of its unpopularity, the tax being especially obnoxious because of its inquisitorial character. 

Sardon Magna Constablewick.   Hearthes Chargeable. 

Thomas Kempson,    Eight

Michaell Nickine,     Three

Thomas Bourne,     Foure

Edward Kempson,   Seaven

William Southall,    Three

Richard Wallowes,   One

Robert Greene,   Two

Thomas Hipwood,   One

Roger Pinson,   One

John Dunne,   One

Francis Stoakes,   One

Jonathan Walhouse,   One

Dorrothy Perton,   One

Margery Chomley,   One

                                                        Total  35

 

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

Tho: Moore, Senior              Tho: Moore, Junior

Henry Moore                        William Hargreave

Thomas Clay                       George Hudson

Thomas Pinson

 

By John Morrall,                     Minister 

Tho: Mason & Henry Wollaston,       Churchwardens. 

Allowed by

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

By Tho: Pinson,      Constable.