Thank you Charani. Like you, I'm curious to learn how they raised taxes in those 6 intervening years. Liz www.btinternet.com/~e.newbery OPC for Street, Somerset ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charani" <familyhunter@family-hunter.co.uk> To: <bristol_and_district@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 1:54 PM Subject: Re: [B&D] Dwelly's Hearth Tax 1664-65 CLOTHIERs > Liz wrote: >> Thank you Charani. Will have to check them. > > YW :)) > >> I am curious to know - what is the maximum number of hearths anyone had? > > I've seen someone with 9 hearths but not more than that so far. The > larger the house the greater the numer of hearths. > > All reception rooms would have had one and each of the bedrooms. > >> The Hearth Tax ceased in 1689. It seems the Window Tax started in 1696 >> so >> how did they get money from the population between 1689 and 1696? I >> suppose >> these taxes were like our Council Tax! > > According to my book, the Heath Tax was "finally abolished by Statute > 1 Wm & Mary." It goes on to say "[s]ix years later a tax of 2/- was > levied on all houses except cottages, and a tax on all windows in such > houses exceeding nine in number." > > I would have thought there must have been some kind of tax in those > six years. > > Just as people blocked up hearths or dug them up, so people bricked up > windows to avoid paying tax on them. > > I have a book, published on 2006, on Houses and the Heath Tax > published by the British Council for Archaeology (BCA Research Report > 150) which is interesting and it has a piece on Bristol. The ISBN is > 1 902771 65 6 but these publications can be difficult to get hold of > once they are out of print. > > > -- > Charani (UK) > OPC for Walton, Greinton and Clutton, SOM > Asst OPC for Ashcott and Shapwick, SOM > http://wsom-opc.org.uk > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BRISTOL_AND_DISTRICT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Liz wrote: > Thank you Charani. Like you, I'm curious to learn how they raised taxes in > those 6 intervening years. I wonder if someone at the Record Office would know. -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton, Greinton and Clutton, SOM Asst OPC for Ashcott and Shapwick, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk