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It was calculated based on the number of <a href="/wiki/Hearth" title="Hearth">hearths</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Fireplace" title="Fireplace">fireplaces</a>, within a municipal area and is considered among the first types of <a href="/wiki/Progressive_tax" title="Progressive tax">progressive tax</a>. </p><p>Hearth tax was levied in the <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine Empire</a> from the 9th century, <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a> and <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a> from the 14th century, and finally in <a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a> and Ireland in the 17th century. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hearth_tax&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Byzantine_Empire">Byzantine Empire</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hearth_tax&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Byzantine Empire"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine Empire</a> a tax on hearths, known as <i><b>kapnikon</b></i>, was first explicitly mentioned for the reign of <a href="/wiki/Nicephorus_I" class="mw-redirect" title="Nicephorus I">Nicephorus I</a> (802–811), although its context implies that it was already then old and established and perhaps it should be taken back to the 7th century AD. Kapnikon was a tax levied on households without exceptions for the poor.<sup id="cite_ref-Haldon_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Haldon-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="France">France</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hearth_tax&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: France"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the 1340s especially, the <a href="/wiki/King_of_France" class="mw-redirect" title="King of France">King of France</a>'s personal expenditure on <a href="/wiki/Dowry" title="Dowry">dowries</a>, gratuities, the upkeep of the <a href="/wiki/Palace" title="Palace">palace</a>, his travels and his wardrobe, consumed the entirety of the royal income.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <b>fouage</b> (<a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a>: <i>focagium</i>) was assessed on the basis of <a href="/wiki/Household" title="Household">households</a> and was usually paid by towns in a pre-arranged lump sum raised in any manner the locality chose to employ.<sup id="cite_ref-Wagner294_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wagner294-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It existed in certain French provinces, and became widespread in the 14th century when the royal finances were unable to bear the rising costs of war and state agents. In particular, <i>fouages</i> were levied in 1342 and 1349.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="England">England</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hearth_tax&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: England"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Middle_Ages">Middle Ages</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hearth_tax&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Middle Ages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <i>hearth-penny</i> was an Anglo-Saxon term for <i><a href="/wiki/Peter%27s_pence" class="mw-redirect" title="Peter's pence">Peter's pence</a></i>. 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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Coat_of_Arms_of_England_%281660-1689%29.svg/210px-Coat_of_Arms_of_England_%281660-1689%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Coat_of_Arms_of_England_%281660-1689%29.svg/280px-Coat_of_Arms_of_England_%281660-1689%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1550" data-file-height="1550" /></span></span><div class="infobox-caption"><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_England" title="Parliament of England">Parliament of England</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Short_and_long_titles" title="Short and long titles">Long title</a></th><td class="infobox-data description">An Act for establishing an additional Revenue upon His Majestie His Heires & Successors for the better support of His and theire Crown and Dignity.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Citation_of_United_Kingdom_legislation" title="Citation of United Kingdom legislation">Citation</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/14_Cha._2" class="mw-redirect" title="14 Cha. 2">14 Cha. 2</a>. c. 10<br /><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul style="margin-left:1em;text-indent:-1em;"><li>(Ruffhead: <span class="nowrap">13 & 14 Cha. 2. c. 10</span>)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;">Dates</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Royal_assent" title="Royal assent">Royal assent</a></th><td class="infobox-data">19 May 1662</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Coming_into_force" class="mw-redirect" title="Coming into force">Commencement</a></th><td class="infobox-data dtstart">25 March 1662</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Repealed</th><td class="infobox-data dtend">25 March 1689</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;">Other legislation</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Repeal" title="Repeal">Repealed by</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul style="margin-left:1em;text-indent:-1em;"><li><a href="/wiki/Hearth_Money_Act_1688" class="mw-redirect" title="Hearth Money Act 1688">Hearth Money Act 1688</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;"><div style="background-color: #ffcccc;">Status: Repealed</div></th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.british-history.ac.uk/statutes-realm/vol5/pp390-393">Text of statute as originally enacted</a></th></tr></tbody></table> <div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">United Kingdom legislation</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox vevent mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary" style="font-size:100%"><span style="font-size:125%"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238216509"><span class="vanchor"><span id="Hearth_Money_Act_1663"></span><span class="vanchor-text">Hearth Money Act 1663</span></span></span></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader" style="font-weight: bold;">Act of Parliament</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" 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Money</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Citation_of_United_Kingdom_legislation" title="Citation of United Kingdom legislation">Citation</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/15_Cha._2" class="mw-redirect" title="15 Cha. 2">15 Cha. 2</a>. c .13</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;">Dates</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Royal_assent" title="Royal assent">Royal assent</a></th><td class="infobox-data">27 July 1663</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Coming_into_force" class="mw-redirect" title="Coming into force">Commencement</a></th><td class="infobox-data dtstart">18 February 1663</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Repealed</th><td class="infobox-data dtend">25 March 1689</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;">Other legislation</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Repeal" title="Repeal">Repealed by</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul style="margin-left:1em;text-indent:-1em;"><li><a href="/wiki/Hearth_Money_Act_1688" class="mw-redirect" title="Hearth Money Act 1688">Hearth Money Act 1688</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;"><div style="background-color: #ffcccc;">Status: Repealed</div></th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.british-history.ac.uk/statutes-realm/vol5/pp493-495">Text of statute as originally enacted</a></th></tr></tbody></table> <div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">United Kingdom legislation</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Coat_of_Arms_of_England_%281660-1689%29.svg/280px-Coat_of_Arms_of_England_%281660-1689%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1550" data-file-height="1550" /></span></span><div class="infobox-caption"><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_England" title="Parliament of England">Parliament of England</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Short_and_long_titles" title="Short and long titles">Long title</a></th><td class="infobox-data description">An Act for collecting the Duty ariseing by Hearth-money by Officers to be appointed by His Majestie.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Citation_of_United_Kingdom_legislation" title="Citation of United Kingdom legislation">Citation</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/16_Cha._2" class="mw-redirect" title="16 Cha. 2">16 Cha. 2</a>. c. 3</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;">Dates</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Royal_assent" title="Royal assent">Royal assent</a></th><td class="infobox-data">17 May 1664</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Coming_into_force" class="mw-redirect" title="Coming into force">Commencement</a></th><td class="infobox-data dtstart">16 March 1664</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Repealed</th><td class="infobox-data dtend">25 March 1689</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;">Other legislation</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Repeal" title="Repeal">Repealed by</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul style="margin-left:1em;text-indent:-1em;"><li><a href="/wiki/Hearth_Money_Act_1688" class="mw-redirect" title="Hearth Money Act 1688">Hearth Money Act 1688</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;"><div style="background-color: #ffcccc;">Status: Repealed</div></th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.british-history.ac.uk/statutes-realm/vol5/pp514-516">Text of statute as originally enacted</a></th></tr></tbody></table> <div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">United Kingdom legislation</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox vevent mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary" style="font-size:100%"><span style="font-size:125%"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238216509"><span class="vanchor"><span id="Hearth_Money_Act_1688"></span><span class="vanchor-text">Hearth Money Act 1688</span></span></span></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader" style="font-weight: bold;">Act of Parliament</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Coat_of_Arms_of_England_%281660-1689%29.svg/140px-Coat_of_Arms_of_England_%281660-1689%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="140" height="140" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Coat_of_Arms_of_England_%281660-1689%29.svg/210px-Coat_of_Arms_of_England_%281660-1689%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Coat_of_Arms_of_England_%281660-1689%29.svg/280px-Coat_of_Arms_of_England_%281660-1689%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1550" data-file-height="1550" /></span></span><div class="infobox-caption"><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_England" title="Parliament of England">Parliament of England</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Short_and_long_titles" title="Short and long titles">Long title</a></th><td class="infobox-data description">An Act for the takeing away the Revenue ariseing by Hearth-Money.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Citation_of_United_Kingdom_legislation" title="Citation of United Kingdom legislation">Citation</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/1_Will._%26_Mar." class="mw-redirect" title="1 Will. & Mar.">1 Will. & Mar.</a> c. 10<br /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul style="margin-left:1em;text-indent:-1em;"><li>(Ruffhead: <span class="nowrap">1 Will. & Mar. Sess. 1. c. 10</span>)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;">Dates</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Royal_assent" title="Royal assent">Royal assent</a></th><td class="infobox-data">24 April 1689</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Coming_into_force" class="mw-redirect" title="Coming into force">Commencement</a></th><td class="infobox-data dtstart">25 March 1689</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Repealed</th><td class="infobox-data dtend">15 July 1867</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;">Other legislation</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Repeals/revokes</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul style="margin-left:1em;text-indent:-1em;"><li><a href="/wiki/Fire-Hearth_and_Stoves_Taxation_Act_1662" class="mw-redirect" title="Fire-Hearth and Stoves Taxation Act 1662">Fire-Hearth and Stoves Taxation Act 1662</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Hearth_Money_Act_1663" class="mw-redirect" title="Hearth Money Act 1663">Hearth Money Act 1663</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Hearth_Money_Act_1664" class="mw-redirect" title="Hearth Money Act 1664">Hearth Money Act 1664</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Repeal" title="Repeal">Repealed by</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Statute_Law_Revision_Act_1867" title="Statute Law Revision Act 1867">Statute Law Revision Act 1867</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;"><div style="background-color: #ffcccc;">Status: Repealed</div></th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.british-history.ac.uk/statutes-realm/vol6/pp61-62">Text of statute as originally enacted</a></th></tr></tbody></table> <p>In <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a>, hearth tax, also known as <b>hearth money</b>, <b>chimney tax</b>, or <b>chimney money</b>, was a <a href="/wiki/Duty_(economics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Duty (economics)">tax</a> imposed by <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_England" title="Parliament of England">Parliament</a> in 1662,<sup id="cite_ref-hants_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hants-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to support the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Households_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Royal Households of the United Kingdom">Royal Household</a> of <a href="/wiki/Charles_II_of_England" title="Charles II of England">King Charles II</a>. Following the <a href="/wiki/English_Restoration" class="mw-redirect" title="English Restoration">Restoration of the monarchy</a> in 1660, Parliament calculated that the Royal Household needed an annual income of £1,200,000.<sup id="cite_ref-hants_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hants-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The hearth tax was a supplemental tax to make up for the shortfall. It was considered easier to establish the number of hearths than the number of heads,<sup id="cite_ref-hants_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hants-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> hearths forming a more stationary subject for taxation than people. This form of <a href="/wiki/Taxation" class="mw-redirect" title="Taxation">taxation</a> was new to England, but had precedents abroad.<sup id="cite_ref-hants_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hants-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It generated considerable debate, but was supported by the economist <a href="/wiki/Sir_William_Petty" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir William Petty">Sir William Petty</a>, and carried through the Commons by the influential West Country member <a href="/wiki/Sir_Courtenay_Pole,_2nd_Baronet" title="Sir Courtenay Pole, 2nd Baronet">Sir Courtenay Pole, 2nd Baronet</a> (whose enemies nicknamed him "Sir Chimney Poll" as a result). <sup id="cite_ref-hants_5-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hants-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The bill received <a href="/wiki/Royal_assent" title="Royal assent">royal assent</a> on 19 May 1662,<sup id="cite_ref-hants_5-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hants-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with the first payment due on 29 September 1662, <a href="/wiki/Michaelmas" title="Michaelmas">Michaelmas</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>One <a href="/wiki/Shilling" title="Shilling">shilling</a> was liable to be paid for every fire hearth or <a href="/wiki/Stove" title="Stove">stove</a>, in all dwellings, houses, edifices or lodgings,<sup id="cite_ref-hants_5-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hants-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was payable at <a href="/wiki/Michaelmas" title="Michaelmas">Michaelmas</a>, 29 September and on <a href="/wiki/Lady_Day" title="Lady Day">Lady Day</a>, 25 March. The tax thus amounted to two <a href="/wiki/Shilling" title="Shilling">shillings</a> per hearth or stove per year. The original bill contained a practical shortcoming in that it did not distinguish between owners and occupiers and was potentially a major burden on the poor as there were no <a href="/wiki/Tax_exemption" title="Tax exemption">exemptions</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-hants_5-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hants-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The bill was subsequently amended so that the tax was paid by the occupier.<sup id="cite_ref-hants_5-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hants-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Further amendments introduced a range of exemptions that ensured that a substantial proportion of the poorer people did not have to pay the tax.<sup id="cite_ref-hants_5-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hants-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable" align="right" width="300" style="margin-Left:5pt;margin-Bottom:0pt;margin-Right:0pt;margin-Top:0pt"> <tbody><tr> <th>Exemptions from the hearth tax<sup id="cite_ref-hants_5-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hants-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th></tr> <tr> <td>Not paying Poor or Church Rates </td></tr> <tr> <td>Inhabiting a house, tenement or land worth less than 20 shillings (£1) rent per annum </td></tr> <tr> <td>Assets worth less than £10 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Private ovens, furnaces, kilns and blowing houses </td></tr> <tr> <td>Hospitals and almshouses where revenue less than £100 per annum </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Exemption certificates had to be signed by a <a href="/wiki/Minister_(Christianity)" title="Minister (Christianity)">minister</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Churchwarden" title="Churchwarden">churchwarden</a>, or an overseer of the poor and two <a href="/wiki/Justices_of_the_peace" class="mw-redirect" title="Justices of the peace">justices of the peace</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-hants_5-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hants-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From 1664, everybody whose home had more than two hearths was liable to pay the tax, even if otherwise exempt, and changes were made to reduce the scope for <a href="/wiki/Tax_avoidance" title="Tax avoidance">tax avoidance</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-hants_5-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hants-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Revenue generated in the first year was less than expected, so from 1663, the names and number of hearths were required to be listed even if non-liable. This additional detail has made the relevant hearth tax documents particularly useful to modern historians and other researchers.<sup id="cite_ref-hants_5-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hants-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, details of householders who were not liable to pay the tax were not recorded for all years of its operation, as they were not needed for audit purposes when the right to collect the tax was "farmed" for collection by contractors in return for their payment of a fixed premium. </p><p>The arrangements for collecting the hearth tax varied during its lifetime:<sup id="cite_ref-hants_5-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hants-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>1662 to 1664: The tax was collected by petty constables, with supervision and administration through the existing machinery of local government.</li> <li>1664 to 1665: Receivers (commonly known as "chimney-men") were appointed specifically to collect the tax.</li> <li>1666 to 1669: The right to collect the tax was leased or "farmed out" to three City of London merchants, in exchange for a premium.</li> <li>1669 to 1674: A central government office called "Agents for the Hearth Tax" supervised collection by directly employed receivers.</li> <li>1674 to 1684: The tax was again farmed out.</li> <li>1684 to 1689: A special government commission collected both the excise and hearth tax.</li></ul> <p>The tax fell most heavily on those who occupied the houses with the greatest number of hearths. For instance, in 1673-4 the Earl of Exeter had to pay for 70 hearths at Burghley House. In contrast, most householders who were liable to pay tax had only one or two hearths and a significant proportion of householders were not liable to pay at all.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The hearth tax was much resented because it often entailed inspection of the interior of dwellings by the sub-collectors and petty constables, who had legal authority to enter every property to check on the number of hearths.<sup id="cite_ref-hants_5-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hants-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some people stopped up their chimneys so that the tax was not due on them, but where this was discovered by the assessors the tax was doubled.<sup id="cite_ref-hants_5-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hants-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 31 July 1684, a fire in <a href="/wiki/Churchill,_Oxfordshire" title="Churchill, Oxfordshire">Churchill, Oxfordshire</a>, destroyed 20 houses and many other buildings, and killed four people. It was apparently caused by a baker who, to avoid chimney tax, had knocked through the wall from her oven to her neighbour's chimney. Sir Courtenay Pole, its principal author, was attacked for having devised "the most vexatious tax on the people that ever was known." </p><p>After the <a href="/wiki/Glorious_Revolution" title="Glorious Revolution">Glorious Revolution</a>, the hearth tax was repealed by the newly empowered <a href="/wiki/English_Parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="English Parliament">English Parliament</a> and agreed to by the newly installed <a href="/wiki/William_III_of_England" title="William III of England">William III</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mary_II_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Mary II of England">Mary II</a> in 1689, as<sup id="cite_ref-hants_5-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hants-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <blockquote><p><i>not only a great oppression to the poorer sort, but a badge of slavery upon the whole people, exposing every man’s house to be entered into, and searched at pleasure, by persons unknown to him.</i></p></blockquote> <p>At the end of the Glorious Revolution in 1688, <a href="/wiki/William_III_of_England" title="William III of England">William III</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mary_II_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Mary II of England">Mary II</a> also agreed to and signed the English <a href="/wiki/Bill_of_Rights_1689" title="Bill of Rights 1689">Bill of Rights 1689</a> marking a new level of co-operation and power sharing between Parliament and the English monarchs. The cancellation of the hearth tax and the signing of the Bill of Rights, etc. led to a greater measure of legal protection for life, liberty, and property in England that encouraged and empowered the middle class at the beginning of the <a href="/wiki/Industrial_Revolution" title="Industrial Revolution">Industrial Revolution</a>. This action both signalled the end of several centuries of tension and conflict between the Crown and Parliament, and the end of the idea that English kings had any <i>divine rights</i> and that England would be restored to Roman Catholicism. The new King <a href="/wiki/William_III_of_England" title="William III of England">William III</a> and his wife <a href="/wiki/Mary_II_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Mary II of England">Mary II</a> were Protestant leaders from the <a href="/wiki/Dutch_Republic" title="Dutch Republic">Dutch Republic</a> who were invited by Parliament to rule England. To make up for the loss of tax revenue, due to the cancellation of the hearth tax, uniform property taxes were imposed with few exclusions.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Scotland">Scotland</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hearth_tax&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Scotland"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_hearth_remains_in_the_Glenmore_derelict_cottage._-_geograph.org.uk_-_376923.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/The_hearth_remains_in_the_Glenmore_derelict_cottage._-_geograph.org.uk_-_376923.jpg/220px-The_hearth_remains_in_the_Glenmore_derelict_cottage._-_geograph.org.uk_-_376923.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/The_hearth_remains_in_the_Glenmore_derelict_cottage._-_geograph.org.uk_-_376923.jpg/330px-The_hearth_remains_in_the_Glenmore_derelict_cottage._-_geograph.org.uk_-_376923.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/The_hearth_remains_in_the_Glenmore_derelict_cottage._-_geograph.org.uk_-_376923.jpg/440px-The_hearth_remains_in_the_Glenmore_derelict_cottage._-_geograph.org.uk_-_376923.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="426" /></a><figcaption>Derelict cottage hearth in Scotland</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1690 the <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Scotland" title="Parliament of Scotland">Parliament of Scotland</a> granted a tax of 14 shillings on every hearth, payable by both landowners and tenants, to raise money for the army with only hospitals and the poor living on parish charity being exempt, the tax being collected from 1691 to 1695.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ireland">Ireland</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hearth_tax&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Ireland"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Unlike in England, which abolished the Hearth Tax in 1689, it continued in the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Ireland" title="Kingdom of Ireland">Kingdom of Ireland</a> till the early 19th century although it underwent major reform at end of the 18th century. It was levied half yearly by the sheriff of each county on the basis of lists of the names of householders compiled by local justices of the peace. The list of the households required to pay the Hearth Tax became known as the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Hearth_Money_Rolls&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hearth Money Rolls (page does not exist)">Hearth Money Rolls</a>, which were arranged by county, <a href="/wiki/Barony_(Ireland)" title="Barony (Ireland)">barony</a>, parish, and <a href="/wiki/Townland" title="Townland">townland</a>. The tax was sometimes collected over an area known as a 'walk', which was based on both the town and a large rural area outside the town. </p><p>Several attempts were made in Parliament to abolish or at least limit the proportion of households obliged to pay the tax, which was widely regarded as "a shameful infliction upon the poor peasant, to whom even two or three shillings in the year for such a tax was a burden and a wrong".<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The chief proposers of a radical change were <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Conolly_(1738%E2%80%931803)" title="Thomas Conolly (1738–1803)">Thomas Conolly</a> and John O'Neill. In 1788, for example, they argued that for a substantial portion of those having to pay the tax, the yearly cash demand was an unreasonable burden.<sup id="cite_ref-irish_peasants_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-irish_peasants-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-henry_grattan_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-henry_grattan-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Henry_Grattan" title="Henry Grattan">Henry Grattan</a> developed the same point: "I am convinced, that the man who has but five pounds in the world, and pays thirty shillings for his house, ought not to pay hearth-money; the strongest argument for his relief is the bare statement of his condition….The wretchedness of their living, and the misery of their consumption, is the reason why they scarcely pay any tax but the hearth-money, and is likewise a reason why they should not even pay hearth-money."<sup id="cite_ref-henry_grattan_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-henry_grattan-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Major reform of the hearth tax was finally carried out in 1793 whereby one-hearth households with less than £10 in personal property, or with houses and land worth £5 or less, were henceforth deemed exempt from the tax. The measure was apparently a consequence of parliamentary pressure in the previous session; the modification of the <a href="/wiki/Window_tax" title="Window tax">window tax</a> in Britain giving total relief to poorer householders had led to calls in the Irish Parliament for similar "liberality" in the light of Ireland's healthy finances. The <a href="/wiki/Chancellor_of_the_Exchequer" title="Chancellor of the Exchequer">Chancellor of the Exchequer</a> (<a href="/wiki/William_Pitt_the_Younger" title="William Pitt the Younger">William Pitt</a>) had refused, but a parliamentary committee was established under the de facto chairmanship of Mr G. P. Bushe who successfully proposed that one-hearth householders should be divided into two groups: those above and those below £5 in annual valuation. Subsequently, in 1795, freedom from hearth tax was extended to <i>all</i> one-hearth householders, as the opposition had earlier demanded; at the same time, the tax on multiple-hearth houses was raised.<sup id="cite_ref-irish_peasants_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-irish_peasants-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The number of persons exempted from the hearth tax was estimated at between a million and a half to two million.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The original Hearth Money Rolls are not extant. The records were housed in the <a href="/wiki/Four_Courts" title="Four Courts">Four Courts</a> in Dublin, the repository for the Public Records Office, but during the <a href="/wiki/Irish_Civil_War" title="Irish Civil War">Irish Civil War</a> in 1922 the building was destroyed by fire, which also destroyed the Rolls (along with the Ireland census records for 1821, 1831, 1841, and 1851), but copies of some of the Rolls have survived. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Hearth_tax_research">Hearth tax research</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hearth_tax&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Hearth tax research"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The comprehensiveness and near-national coverage of hearth tax returns differentiates this historical evidence from other pre-modern surveys and tax records. Unlike other taxation surveys, the hearth tax recorded the names of those who were not liable to pay the tax, and hence provides a means of looking at a full range of social groups.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The work of C. A. F. Meekings<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> during the mid-twentieth century is an important resource for hearth tax research. It provides useful commentaries on hearth tax manuscripts in <i><a href="/wiki/The_National_Archives_(United_Kingdom)" title="The National Archives (United Kingdom)">The National Archives</a></i> (TNA), and arranges the hearth tax files in order according to the different systems of administration.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Meekings' compilation of hearth tax accounts, which was published posthumously, is a useful resource for economic historians.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Further information on hearth taxes, as well as other Stuart taxes and loyalty lists, is provided by Jeremy Gibson,<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which offers a comprehensive summary of hearth tax returns and assessments, whether in TNA, county record offices, or other libraries and archives. Each digest includes a brief commentary on the date, geographical coverage, state of the manuscript, approximate number of names included, and details of complete or partially published editions.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>An additional resource for hearth tax research is Elizabeth Parkinson's study of the establishment of the tax and the complexities of its administration in the period 1662–66.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This work provides assistance with deciphering the technical details of hearth tax documents, which otherwise might appear to be little more than lists of names and numbers. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Approaches_to_hearth_tax_research">Approaches to hearth tax research</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hearth_tax&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Approaches to hearth tax research"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A principal focus of interest in the hearth tax lies in its application for understanding the distribution of wealth among social ranks within geographical areas.<sup id="cite_ref-A._Wareham_2011_p.280_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-A._Wareham_2011_p.280-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The method of connecting bands of hearth numbers to social categories was pioneered by <a href="/wiki/William_George_Hoskins" class="mw-redirect" title="William George Hoskins">William George Hoskins</a>, looking at the city of <a href="/wiki/Exeter" title="Exeter">Exeter</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His system has subsequently been adjusted by local historians and, as Tom Arkell noted, these adaptations depend upon a 'particular locality's structure, but this diversity, combined with too many variables, prevents effective comparison between most of these [local] studies'.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the 1980s Arkell's discussion of the eight hearth tax records for <a href="/wiki/Kineton" title="Kineton">Kineton</a> hundred in <a href="/wiki/Warwickshire" title="Warwickshire">Warwickshire</a> enabled detailed comparisons to be made between the data for 1662–1666 and 1669–1674, and to test the extent of the coverage of each record.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This led him to conclude that 'the proportions of different hearth tax categories remained remarkably stable for the hundred's six best assessments'.<sup id="cite_ref-A._Wareham_2011_p.280_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-A._Wareham_2011_p.280-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A decade later, <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Spufford" title="Margaret Spufford">Margaret Spufford</a> cleared a path for local historians interested in studying local variations in wealth and poverty at county and parish levels, and set out the relevance of the hearth tax to architectural history and genealogy.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She developed Hoskins' argument that the numbers of hearths in a household could be equated with levels of personal wealth, and that by organising the properties into groups determined by the number of hearths, historians could assess patterns of wealth and poverty which distinguished between social categories.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She placed this system within a national template and tested the divergences in wealth between counties, areas within counties, and parishes.<sup id="cite_ref-A._Wareham_2011_p.280_21-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-A._Wareham_2011_p.280-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Tom Arkell responded in <i>The Local Historian</i>, putting forward an alternative approach which drew upon an array of published and unpublished data.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> First, he argued for the aggregation of data from different returns in the mid-1660s and the early 1670s to produce more reliable statistics, thereby overcoming the problems of damaged or incomplete records. Second, he suggested that the percentage of households with three hearths and above provided a clear way of identifying regional variations in wealth, especially when groups of parishes with broadly similar percentages were grouped together into sub-regions. Third, he provided a national table of sub-regions graded by the proportion of dwellings with three hearths and over.<sup id="cite_ref-A._Wareham_2011_p.280_21-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-A._Wareham_2011_p.280-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Both Arkell and Spufford used statistics and maps to enable readers to quickly appreciate the relative position of a parish, or groups of parishes, in relation to counterparts in a county, and to extrapolate to the national level by making comparisons between case studies.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Since 2010 the Centre for Hearth Tax Research has turned its attention to the digital humanities as a way of researching and publishing the Restoration hearth tax. </p><p>In 2019, the centre launched a new website "Hearth Tax Digital".<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This replaced Hearth Tax Online, established in 2010 and taken down in 2017. Hearth Tax Digital is a new platform for the publication and dissemination of research and analysis on hearth tax records and other associated documents. It provides a unique window into society and the social character of England in the late seventeenth century. It acts both as a portal through which the Hearth Tax Project & Centre can circulate data and findings, and also as a forum for other research centres, historical groups or individuals to publish work allied to hearth tax studies. Hearth Tax Digital provides free access to personal name data as well as analysis of the distribution of both population and wealth in urban and rural communities in England. </p><p>The advanced search function allows historians to combine searches for personal names, place names and other words occurring in the texts (e.g. blind, Mrs, seaman) with searches by hearth numbers. This function operates in the manner of database technology. The great advantage of the website developed by Professor Vogeler and Dr Wareham is that it goes beyond the traditional database functions to provide historical information rooted in the documents in terms of the original order in which they were written. Searches by place to reveal the lists of the names of all the householders in the parish or township, and searches for individual householders return the name of that householder in the context of the names of other householders who were their neighbours. The same approach is also used in the Records page, which means as readers scan their eyes down the returns they are able to follow in the footsteps of the collectors and consider local geographies of population distribution and the divide between rich and poor on a street-by-street basis. All searches are linked to a data basket function whereby groups of entries from the search enquiries are brought together which the user can store for further analysis, or indeed bring together a series of single entries highlighted from reading the returns in the records pages. </p><p>A final word should be reserved for exemption certificates. Until recently there was relatively little concern with the exemption certificates that recorded the names of the householders who were not liable to pay the hearth tax.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For the <a href="/wiki/West_Riding" class="mw-redirect" title="West Riding">West Riding</a> there are around 650 of these certificates, helping to fill the gaps for some areas where the exempt are under-recorded in the returns and assessments;<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in the <a href="/wiki/East_Riding_of_Yorkshire" title="East Riding of Yorkshire">East Riding of Yorkshire</a> volume the data from 55 selected exemption certificates in compared to a series of returns between 1670 and 1674 to check completeness of coverage.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This research facilitates further understanding of those people who were beneath the tax threshold and the terminology which was used to describe poorer property. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Organisations">Organisations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hearth_tax&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Organisations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Centre for Hearth Tax Research<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is based at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Roehampton" title="University of Roehampton">University of Roehampton</a>, London. The primary objective of the Centre for Hearth Tax Research is to publish, in a hard-copy volume, the best surviving hearth tax return or returns for every county in England where a satisfactory return has not already been published. However, this represents a long-term project and it will be several years before some county volumes are completed. </p><p>The centre was established in 1995 (then known as the Centre for Hearth Tax Studies) under the direction of Professor <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Spufford" title="Margaret Spufford">Margaret Spufford</a>. The current director is Dr <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Wareham" title="Andrew Wareham">Andrew Wareham</a> and the research officer is Aaron Columbus. </p><p>In 2000, the award of a grant from the <a href="/wiki/Heritage_Lottery_Fund" class="mw-redirect" title="Heritage Lottery Fund">Heritage Lottery Fund</a> paid for the microfilming of all of the taxation returns stored in <a href="/wiki/The_National_Archives_(United_Kingdom)" title="The National Archives (United Kingdom)">The National Archives</a> and a publishing partnership was established between the centre and the <a href="/wiki/British_Record_Society" title="British Record Society">British Record Society</a> which has led to the publication of a number of county volumes, including recent volumes on Essex (2012), London and Middlesex (2014), Yorkshire East Riding (2016) and the city of Bristol (2018). Upcoming volumes include Huntingdonshire, Norfolk and Northamptonshire.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2004, the <a href="/wiki/British_Academy" title="British Academy">British Academy</a> adopted the Hearth Tax Project and, in 2007 and 2009, the <a href="/wiki/Arts_and_Humanities_Research_Council" title="Arts and Humanities Research Council">Arts and Humanities Research Council</a> (AHRC) made awards to fund a <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a> and <a href="/wiki/Middlesex" title="Middlesex">Middlesex</a> Hearth Tax Project and a research and outreach programme which assisted with the organization of an exhibition on landscapes of poverty at the Essex Record Office which was visited by c. 1,875 people. </p><p>In 2019, the centre launched a new website "Hearth Tax Digital". This replaced Hearth Tax Online, established in 2010 and taken down in 2017. Hearth Tax Digital was created in a collaboration by the Centre for Hearth Tax Research at Roehampton University with the Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung, Universität Graz, arising from the research collaboration between Professor Vogeler and Dr Wareham. It has been funded by the British Academy and the University of Roehampton in 2018–2019, and it is hosted in the humanities digital archive infrastructure of Graz University, the GAMS. The ongoing work of the Hearth Tax Project & Centre means that new transcripts and analyses are being continually produced and, consequently, Hearth Tax will be updated as new counties are completed </p><p>The centre also operates a blog, Hearth Tax Online <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://hearthtax.wordpress.com/">"Hearth Tax Online"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Hearth+Tax+Online&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fhearthtax.wordpress.com%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHearth+tax" class="Z3988"></span>. This is a forum by which to publish activities, analysis of the Hearth Tax, and guest blogs by those engaging with the Hearth Tax. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hearth_tax&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Glass_tax" title="Glass tax">Glass tax</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brick_tax" title="Brick tax">Brick tax</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wallpaper_tax" title="Wallpaper tax">Wallpaper tax</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Window_tax" title="Window tax">Window tax</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hut_tax" title="Hut tax">Hut tax</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hearth_tax&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 33em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Haldon-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Haldon_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Haldon, John F. 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Cambridge University Press.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Fossier, p 113</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Wagner294-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Wagner294_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Wagner, p 294</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Fossier, p 115</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-hants-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-hants_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-hants_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-hants_5-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-hants_5-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-hants_5-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-hants_5-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-hants_5-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-hants_5-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-hants_5-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-hants_5-9"><sup><i><b>j</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-hants_5-10"><sup><i><b>k</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-hants_5-11"><sup><i><b>l</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-hants_5-12"><sup><i><b>m</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-hants_5-13"><sup><i><b>n</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-hants_5-14"><sup><i><b>o</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-hants_5-15"><sup><i><b>p</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-hants_5-16"><sup><i><b>q</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-hants_5-17"><sup><i><b>r</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHughes,_Elizabeth1991" class="citation book cs1">Hughes, Elizabeth, ed. 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Univ of Wisconsin Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-299-09374-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-299-09374-7"><bdi>978-0-299-09374-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Irish+Peasants%3A+Violence+and+Political+Unrest%2C+1780%E2%80%931914&rft.pub=Univ+of+Wisconsin+Press&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=978-0-299-09374-7&rft.aulast=Clark&rft.aufirst=Samuel&rft.au=Donnelly+Jr%2C+James+S.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DsKLQnYmmPLMC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHearth+tax" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-henry_grattan-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-henry_grattan_11-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-henry_grattan_11-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHenry_Grattan1822" class="citation book cs1">Henry Grattan (1822). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=WdU9AAAAcAAJ"><i>The Speeches of the Right Honourable Henry Grattan in the Irish, and in the Imperial Parliament: In Four Volumes</i></a>. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Speeches+of+the+Right+Honourable+Henry+Grattan+in+the+Irish%2C+and+in+the+Imperial+Parliament%3A+In+Four+Volumes&rft.pub=Longman%2C+Hurst%2C+Rees%2C+Orme+and+Brown&rft.date=1822&rft.au=Henry+Grattan&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DWdU9AAAAcAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHearth+tax" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.qub.ac.uk/ild/?func=advanced_search&search=true&bill_number=3216">For giving to his majesty for one year the duties therein mentioned on fire hearths, in lieu of all duties payable on the same, prior to or during the said term</a> Irish Legislation Database.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/William_Edward_Hartpole_Lecky" title="William Edward Hartpole Lecky">William Edward Hartpole Lecky</a> (1892) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7039480M/A_history_of_Ireland_in_the_eighteenth_century."><i>A History of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century Vol. III</i></a> Longmans, Green, and Co.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">A. Wareham, 'The hearth tax and empty properties in London on the eve of the Great Fire', <i>The Local Historian</i> vol. 41 no.4 (2011), p.278</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">e.g. C.A.F. Meekings (ed), <i>Dorset hearth tax assessments, 1662-4</i> (Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1951); idem, <i>The hearth tax 1662-89: exhibition of records</i> (Public Record Office, 1962)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">A. Wareham, 'The hearth tax and empty properties in London on the eve of the Great Fire', <i>The Local Historian</i> vol. 41 no.4 (2011), pp.278</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">C. A. F. Meekings, <i>Analysis of the hearth tax accounts, 1662-1666</i> (List and Index Society, 153, 1979); idem, <i>Analysis of the hearth tax accounts, 1669-1689</i> (List and Index Society, 163 1980)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">J. Gibson, <i>The hearth tax, and other later Stuart tax lists and the association rolls</i> (Federation of Family History Societies, 1985; revd edn 1996)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">A. Wareham, 'The hearth tax and empty properties in London on the eve of the Great Fire', <i>The Local Historian</i> vol. 41 no.4 (2011), p.279</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">E. Parkinson, <i>The Establishment of the Hearth Tax 1662-66</i>, (List and Index Society, 43, 2008)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-A._Wareham_2011_p.280-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-A._Wareham_2011_p.280_21-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-A._Wareham_2011_p.280_21-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-A._Wareham_2011_p.280_21-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-A._Wareham_2011_p.280_21-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">A. Wareham, 'The hearth tax and empty properties in London on the eve of the Great Fire', <i>The Local Historian</i> vol. 41 no.4 (2011), p.280</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">W. G. Hoskins, <i>Industry, trade and people in Exeter, 1688-1800</i> (Manchester UP, 1935) pp.111-122</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">T. Arkell, 'Identifying regional variations from the hearth tax', <i>The Local Historian</i> vol.33 no.3 (2003) p.153</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">T. Arkell, 'Assessing the reliability of the Warwickshire hearth tax returns of 1662-74', <i>Warwickshire History</i> vol.6 (1986) pp.183-197; see also idem, 'Identifying regional variations', pp.154-155</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">T. Arkell, 'The incidence of poverty in England in the later seventeenth century', <i>Social History</i> vol.12 (1987) p.31</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">M. Spufford, 'The scope of local history, and the potential of the hearth tax returns', <i>The Local Historian</i> vol.30 no.4 (2000) (reprinted by the British Association of Local History 2000 Phillimore lecture, pp.1-20, with this version referred to here)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Spufford, 'Scope of local history', pp.3-7</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Arkell, 'Identifying regional variations', pp.155-161, 166-169</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">A. Wareham, 'The hearth tax and empty properties in London on the eve of the Great Fire',<i>The Local Historian</i> vol. 41 no.4 (2011), p.280</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-30">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://gams.uni-graz.at/htx/">"Hearth Tax Digital"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Hearth+Tax+Digital&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fgams.uni-graz.at%2Fhtx%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHearth+tax" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-31">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">A. Wareham, 'The hearth tax and empty properties in London on the eve of the Great Fire', <i>The Local Historian</i> vol. 41 no.4 (2011), p.282</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-32">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">'Appendix III: exemption certificates', in Hey (ed), <i>Yorkshire West Riding hearth tax assessment</i>, pp.564-588 (a handlist)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-33">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Yorkshire East Riding Hearth Tax 1672-3</i>, pp.429-431</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-34">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/Research-Centres/Centre-for-Hearth-Tax-Research">"Centre for Hearth Tax Research"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Centre+for+Hearth+Tax+Research&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.roehampton.ac.uk%2FResearch-Centres%2FCentre-for-Hearth-Tax-Research&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHearth+tax" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-35">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The most recent publication is: Leech, R., Barry, J., Brown, A., Ferguson, C., & Parkinson, E., eds. (2018) <i>Bristol Hearth Tax 1662-1673</i>, BRS Hearth Tax Series XI. Full list of publications at <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/Research-Centres/Centre-for-Hearth-Tax-Research/Publications/">[1]</a></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hearth_tax&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Hearth_Tax_in_England_and_Wales">"Hearth Tax in England and Wales"</a>. FamilySearch<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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