Perhaps PT is more appropriate? Physical Training and not Poll Tax:-) Kind Regards June & Roy http://www.btinternet.com/~roy.cox/index.htm -----Original Message----- From: Eve McLaughlin [mailto:eve@varneys.demon.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 12:38 AM To: OLD-ENGLISH-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [OEL] Poor Rates >In tracing the painter Christian Frederick Zincke i have found him in >the Poor Rates 1715-1748 for St pauls covent garden london > >ive found several good sites on the poor laws but none that explain who >was liable to pay and how their liabilty was calculated any householder who was not himself on the bread line. The amount rental value for the property the person lived in > >CFZ's stayed about the the same at 6sh 6pence 1710 till 1729 but it >jumps to >£1 16sh in 1733 a great dearth, price of bread shot up round about then, so more people needed poor relief. Don't mention words like council tax - God knows what they do with it, but very little beneficial to me. -- Eve McLaughlin Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society ==== OLD-ENGLISH Mailing List ==== SEARCHABLE archives for OLD-ENGLISH: http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=OLD-ENGLISH