St Ive Parish

 Hearth Tax  1662/1664

 

The Hearth Tax was an attempt to tax people according to their wealth, working on the principle that the wealthier they were the more hearth’s they would have in their home. The tax and variants were in existence for several decades but records for St Ive only exist for 1662 and 1664. It was often found that people had stopped up hearths after the first taxation, but in St Ive the opposite seems to have happened as new buildings were erected, the number of hearths went up. As all the names have been put in alphabetical order this is not an exact transcription. Notes that refer to the differences between the two collections are only mentioned where they involve named people.

 

abbott

John

2

 

band

William Esq

2

 

barton of bicton

5

Now John ELLIOTT Esq.

bligh

Agnes

1

Wid

blight

Anne

1

or the occupant

bonney

William

2

 

bounsall

John

1

 

bunny

Anne

1

Wid

cardew

John

1

 

cornish

Urban

2

Now Charles SCRICTH

corryton

Judeth

2

Now Walter JENNENGS

coryton

John

2

Gent

couch

Ebbett

3

Increased 2 by new building

couch

Mr Ebbett

1

or the occupant

cowling

Thomas

1

 

crabb

John

1

 

crabb

Edward

2

 

crewes

Thomas

1

 

dodson

Thomas Esq.

7

 

doney

John

1

Poor – not rated

doney

Walter

1

 

donney

Joan

1

 

fotherby

Charles

3

Rector

gaich

John

2

 

geach

Anne

2

Wid.

gerry

Mary

3

Wid.

glanvill

Thomas

1

 

grigg

Joan

1

 

grigg

Richard

1

 

hawkyn

William

3

 

hickes

John

1

 

hobb

Richard

1

 

horndon

Mr

1

or the occupant

hoskyn

John

4

of Upham

hoskyn

Theobald

3

 

hoskyn

William

3

 

hoskyn

Theobald

1

or the occupant

hoskyn

Theobald

1

or the occupant

hything

Margaret

1

 

jennens

Mr Walter

1

or the occupant

kempe

John

2

 

king

Edward

1

 

l(S?)aundry

Edward

2

 

leane

William

1

 

martin

Bowes

1

 

masters

Henry

1

’64 was Wm DONEY poor – not rated

moorshed

William

4

 

moorton

Charles

1

Increased 3 by new building

olliver

John

2

 

randall

Richard

3

 

rawlyn

William

1

 

rundell

Richard

1

For Gigler WOLSTON

salter

Mr John

1

or the occupant

salterne Mrs or coome Grace

1

 

saltren

John

8

Gent

scobell

Thomas

1

 

skelton

Richard

2

 

skelton

Peter

2

Increased 2 by new building

skelton

Richard

2

Occupant of Theobald GARTH’s tenement

skelton

Richard

1

or the occupant

The occupant of Heathfield tenement

1

 

trubody

John

2

 

trubody

John

1

or the occupant

veale

John

3

 

wenmouth

Nicholas

1

 

wenmouth

Elizabeth

1

 

willcocks

Edward

3

 

wivell

John

1

or the occupant

wrey

Sir Christopher

10

 

wyvell

Joan

2

 

 Lynda Small. January 2002

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