A hearth tax was a property tax in certain countries during the medieval and early modern period, levied on each hearth, thus by proxy on wealth. It was...

Look up hearth in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A hearth (/hɑːrθ/) is the place in a home where a fire is or was traditionally kept for home heating...

in Europe from the 1600s to avoid taxes. Bedroom tax Brick tax Glass tax Hearth tax Wallpaper tax "Scottish window tax costs revealed". bbc.co.uk. 18 July...

government to abandon the poll tax after 1698. Far more controversial was the hearth tax introduced by the Fire-Hearth and Stoves Taxation Act 1662 (14...

Aquitaine. Prince Edward persuaded the estates of Aquitaine to allow him a hearth tax of ten sous for five years in 1368, thereby alienating the lord of Albret...

was an English politician, who is best remembered as the sponsor of the hearth tax, which earned him the jeering nickname "Sir Chimney Pole". He was the...

Taxes on the same principle include hearth tax, brick tax, and wallpaper tax. Excise is levied at the point of manufacture; in the case of hearth tax...

Yorkshire’’ Ian Morris, ed. Morris, Faull, Stinson – Phillimore, 1992 Hearth Tax Online, Roehampton University, 2010 Archived 19 September 2012 at the...

paper and having it hand stenciled. The tax was abolished in 1836. Brick tax Glass tax Hearth tax Window tax Notes UK Retail Price Index inflation figures...

Saxons. It was applied by the Normans to Ireland as a 'penny per hearth' annual tax in the later part of the twelfth century under the Papal Bull Laudabiliter...

population of some 18–20 million in modern-day France at the time of the 1328 hearth tax returns had been reduced 150 years later by 50 percent or more. The Renaissance...

impose wealth taxes, inheritance taxes, estate taxes, gift taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, use taxes, environmental taxes, payroll taxes, duties and/or...

231–248. doi:10.1016/j.jhg.2003.08.021. Gibson, Jeremy. The Hearth Tax, Other Later Stuart Tax Lists, and the Association Oath Rolls: FFHS, 1996. Charles...

local authorities in Ireland. Hearth tax "How Local Property Tax Changes Will Affect the Housing Market?". "Local Property Tax (LPT)" (PDF). www.revenue.ie...

off debts incurred during the Castile campaign, the prince instituted a hearth tax. Arnaud-Amanieu VIII, Lord of Albret had fought on the Black Prince's...

witnesses a Punch and Judy show in London (the first on record). May 16 – The hearth tax is introduced in England and Wales. May 19 The Act of Uniformity 1662...

buildings built during the time of the brick tax. Glass tax Hearth tax Window tax Wallpaper tax "Brick Tax 1784 – 1850". 2015-06-20. Retrieved 2019-02-13...

sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This is also how it is recorded in the Hearth Tax Books of Bristol in the 1660s. Christmas Street still runs from St John's...

household and raising money through unpopular innovations such as the hearth tax. In the latter half of 1660, Charles's joy at the Restoration was tempered...

May 2014 Harrington, D (1999), Kent Hearth Tax Assessment Lady Day 1664 CKS: Q/RTh (PDF), Centre for Hearth Tax Research, archived (PDF) from the original...

in 1590. Growth continued to be slow throughout the 17th century, with hearth tax returns showing that at most there were approximately 429 houses in the...

assessments are probably the hearth tax returns from 1662–1674, which give the names of householders and number of hearths for which they were responsible...

were relatively stable in the early 17th century. Calculations based on hearth tax returns for 1691 indicate a population of 1,234,575, but this figure may...

within a couple of years. Burials in 1667 had returned to 1663 levels, Hearth Tax returns had recovered, and John Graunt contemporarily analysed baptism...

perhaps fearful for his soul, Charles announced the abolition of the hearth tax, the foundation of the government's finances. The ordinance would have...

century, Parliament permitted a Land Tax to be collected from 1667, a Hearth tax from 1691 to 1695 and a Poll tax from 1693 to 1699. The 1707 Union of...

the Hearth Tax", Local Population Studies, 28 (1982), pp. 51–7 By inspection and comparison of the Protestation Returns of 1642 and the Hearth Tax returns...

remains. 1379 Poll Tax recorded Kildwick township as having only 10 households, all paying the minimum tax.: 44  1672 Hearth Tax counted 25 households...

Shrewsbury. He was the husband of Elizabeth Talbot, Bess of Hardwick. In the hearth tax records of 1674, Worksop is said to have had 176 households, which made...

or homestead'. In the 1664 Hearth Tax, a large house belonging to a gentleman, Mr Killingworth, accounted for eight hearths at Boxworth. Boxworth's population...