Carol wrote: Going off on a tangent, you have made me think of the hearth tax now, I'm thinking about dwellings in Esh Co Durham 1700s (my Millburns came from there)- many poor dwellings didnt have fireplaces so the poor used to go to the bakehouse to pay to have bread baked etc, - When Sunday Observance laws came in the 1800's, it became illegal for the bakehouses to trade on Sunday. Thus the satirical rhyme: The rich man has a kitchen, And cooks to dress his dinner; The poor who would roast To the baker's must post, And thus becomes a sinner. By Thomas Love Peacock http://www.thomaslovepeacock.net/shorter.html#poem14 BTW, a "morality filter" on another group changed the poet's name to "Peathingy"!