>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