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 calculated based on the number of hearths, or fireplaces, within a municipal area and is considered among the first types of progressive tax.
Hearth tax was levied in the Byzantine Empire from the 9th century, France and England from the 14th century, and finally in Scotland and Ireland in the 17th century.
A hearthtax 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...
Aquitaine. Prince Edward persuaded the estates of Aquitaine to allow him a hearthtax of ten sous for five years in 1368, thereby alienating the lord of Albret...
government to abandon the poll tax after 1698. Far more controversial was the hearthtax introduced by the Fire-Hearth and Stoves Taxation Act 1662 (14...
in Europe from the 1600s to avoid taxes. Bedroom tax Brick tax Glass taxHearthtax Wallpaper tax "Scottish window tax costs revealed". bbc.co.uk. 18 July...
books and articles on Anglo-Saxon history, Anglo-Norman history and the hearthtax. He is employed as a reader in the department of humanities at Roehampton...
paper and having it hand stenciled. The tax was abolished in 1836. Brick tax Glass taxHearthtax Window tax Notes UK Retail Price Index inflation figures...
population of some 18–20 million in modern-day France at the time of the 1328 hearthtax returns had been reduced 150 years later by 50 percent or more. The Renaissance...
231–248. doi:10.1016/j.jhg.2003.08.021. Gibson, Jeremy. The HearthTax, Other Later Stuart Tax Lists, and the Association Oath Rolls: FFHS, 1996. Charles...
buildings built during the time of the brick tax. Glass taxHearthtax Window tax Wallpaper tax "Brick Tax 1784 – 1850". 2015-06-20. Retrieved 2019-02-13...
witnesses a Punch and Judy show in London (the first on record). May 16 – The hearthtax is introduced in England and Wales. May 19 The Act of Uniformity 1662...
household and raising money through unpopular innovations such as the hearthtax. In the latter half of 1660, Charles's joy at the Restoration was tempered...
May 2014 Harrington, D (1999), Kent HearthTax Assessment Lady Day 1664 CKS: Q/RTh (PDF), Centre for HearthTax Research, archived (PDF) from the original...
were relatively stable in the early 17th century. Calculations based on hearthtax returns for 1691 indicate a population of 1,234,575, but this figure may...
assessments are probably the hearthtax returns from 1662–1674, which give the names of householders and number of hearths for which they were responsible...
perhaps fearful for his soul, Charles announced the abolition of the hearthtax, the foundation of the government's finances. The ordinance would have...
within a couple of years. Burials in 1667 had returned to 1663 levels, HearthTax returns had recovered, and John Graunt contemporarily analysed baptism...
William Godolphin married the Barrett heiress. The HearthTax Returns for 1664 record it as having 8 hearths. The house became a farmhouse in the 19th century...
british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 21 March 2021. Gibson, Jeremy. The HearthTax, Other Later Stuart Tax Lists, and the Association Oath Rolls: FFHS, 1996. https://www...
in 1654. Mary Simmons ran the printing business and according to the hearthtax she ran the largest printing business in London. Samuel was sent to the...
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