Hello All In my experience occupiers of farm land whether rented or freehold and in town trades and business people seem to be those who were rated. I do not know how they assessed businessmen but the land farmers occupied (whether their own or not had a rateable value and sometime this did not seem to change for 40 years or more. A rate was set that seemed to depend on need. In some parish this seemed to vary considerably and I have one parish where it went up to 6 shillings and 8 pence for each pound of rateable value for the overseers accounts and on top of that they paid a further 3 to 4 cents per pound for the churchwardens accounts. This was a very high year and some years the rate for the overseers accounts were half this amount. The churchwardens accounts seemed more consistent. regards Chris Bartlett > -----Original Message----- > From: J.C.Christopher Glass [mailto:chrisx@jccglass.fsnet.co.uk] > Sent: Tuesday, 23 March 2004 9:14 a.m. > To: OLD-ENGLISH-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [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 > > CFZ's stayed about the the same at 6sh 6pence 1710 till 1729 > but it jumps > to > £1 16sh in 1733 and by 1741 had risen to £2 15sh > > having just recieved my council tax bill for this year i know just how he > must of felt > > chris Glass > ruislip Uk > > > > > > ==== OLD-ENGLISH Mailing List ==== > OLD-ENGLISH Web Page > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~oel/ > > >