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hearth-tax
ˈhearth-tax = hearth-money 2.1689 Evelyn Diary 8 Mar., In the mean time to gratify the people, the Hearth Tax was remitted for ever. 1807–8 Syd. Smith Plymley's Lett. Wks. 1859 II. 140/2 Ireland does not contain at this moment less than five millions of people. There were returned in the year 1791 t...
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Hearth tax
A hearth tax was a property tax in certain countries during the medieval and early modern period, levied on each hearth, thus by proxy on wealth. It was calculated based on the number of hearths, or fireplaces, within a municipal area and is considered among the first types of progressive tax. Heart...
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Samuel Terrick
He was deputy receiver of hearth-tax for Denbighshire, Flintshire and Anglesey from 1667 to 1667.
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hearth
▪ I. hearth1 (hɑːθ) Forms: 1 heorð, herth, (4 erþe), 4–6 herth(e, 5–7 harth(e, 6– hearth. [OE. heorð str. masc. = OFris. herth, herd, OS. herth, (MDu. heert, haart(d), MLG. hert, Du. haard, LG. heert, heerd); OHG., MHG. hert, Ger. herd floor, ground, fireplace:—WGer. *herþoz. (In Sc. and north. dial...
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Philip Howard (died 1686)
From 1671 to 1674, Howard was receiver of hearth-tax for Kent and farmer of excise in South Wales.
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smoke-farthing
ˈsmoke-farthing Hist. [smoke n. 2 b.] An offering made at Whitsuntide by the householders of a diocese to the cathedral church; also, a hearth-tax (see quot. 1765).1444 [see Lincoln1 1]. 1524 Churchw. Acc. St. Giles, Reading (ed. Nash) 22 To the Official for smoke farthyngs, iiijs j{supd}. 1575 in N...
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Charles Duncombe (English banker)
In 1684 he was appointed Commissioner for tin coinage 1684 until 1687, and Cashier of hearth-tax at a salary of £400 p.a. in return for a £50,000 loan
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inquisitorial
inquisitorial, a. (ɪnkwɪzɪˈtɔərɪəl) [f. med. L. inquīsītōri-us inquisitory + -al1: cf. F. inquisitorial (1570 in Godef.); also in mod.Sp.] 1. Of or pertaining to an (official) inquisitor or inquisitors; having or exercising the office or function of an inquisitor.1761–2 Hume Hist. Eng. (1806) III. A...
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Rocksavage
Hearth-tax assessments of 1674 show that it was the second largest house in the county, its fifty hearths being surpassed only by Cholmondeley House.
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Lincoln
▪ I. Lincoln1 (ˈlɪŋkən) Also 6 lyncolne, -cum, -kome, lincome, 8 linkome. [The name of an English city, the county town of Lincolnshire.] 1. a. Used attrib. or adj. in the following: † Lincoln farthing, a hearth-tax payable at Lincoln; Lincoln green, a bright green stuff made at Lincoln; Lincoln imp...
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Thomas King (died 1688)
King was deputy collector of hearth-tax for Suffolk from 1666 to 1667 and his partners accused him of withholding funds during the three-year farm.
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Boothstown
The hearth-tax returns of 1666 show nearby Wardley Hall was the largest residence with 19 hearths, Worsley Hall and Booths had 17 each.
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Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh
After this he disappears until around 1662 when he is named in an official report as liable to pay hearth-tax for a dwelling in Castletown, just a few
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Soulton Hall
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Sowton (Saxton's Map of Shropshire, 1695 The County Maps from William Camden's Britannia 1695 by Robert Morden)
Soughton; 1672, The Shropshire Hearth-Tax
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Crewe Hall
The historian Thomas Fuller wrote in 1662:
Hearth-tax assessments of 1674 show the original hall to have been one of the largest houses in Cheshire, its
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