Notes on the Hearth Tax Records
Records in the Anglican Registers
Ten of the taxpayers appear: this is a list of the last mention of them.
- Mrs Deek was alive in 1666
- John Missing was buried in 1667
- Thos Plaile was alive in 1665
- John Walkinson was buried in 1667
- Roger Roberts was buried in 1668
- John Cragg was alive in 1664
- Thos ffitch was alive in 1662
- Thos Wiborow was alive in 1665
- Jas Smith was buried in 1668
- John Brown was alive in 1666
These data are consistent with my interpretation of the dating of the taxation records.
Some notes on nearby villages
| 1664 | 246/26 | ||
| Sturmere | Timothy Cock | ii | Could Robert Cock clicus having been living with a relative? |
| Bumsted ad Turrum | John Cooke | Did we have Cooke or Cock? | |
| Ridgewell 39/91 | I guess I mean 39 Hearths in 91 messuages | ||
| Wm Peacock | vi | Then 0 between lines, then vi, then emy (presumably = empty) This is just like the Stambourne entry for Pannell | |
| Ed Copsey | ii | (1662) | |
| Toppesfield 57/145 | |||
| Birdbrook | ____ Presumably none of our important names here | ||
| The largely illegible contemporary opening paragraph is now in the text. | |||
| 1665 | 246/20 | ||
| Uttlesford Hundred & so on | |||
| Toppesfield 67/124 | + 41 empty & 1 burnt down | ||
| 1664 & 1666 | 112/687 | Subs (Freehearths) | |
| There are some very odd notes at the end of this record: a largely undecipherable blotty cipher reads: | |||
| ii | John ffalconer | ii | now john Levitt |
| iii | Daniel Smith | iii | one stopped up by his sonne |
| iv | James Smith | iv | a squiggle that may be ISQ Den fisson but Look Vlyd [these 2 words may be Deek widow] Doseds Ay nii Js [is this some figure + a half ?] hiw offin squiggle |
| ii | William Robertson | ii | another squiggle that may be ISQ or the word one |
| ii | John Browne | ii | demi ol al bt Prersen; this line may be joined to the ‘one’ above |
Apart from possibly referring to Mrs Deek taking over from Thos Pannell in line 3 and the similarity to the other irregular ‘accompts’ I don’t see that these help.
The best copies are my original pencil sketches in the Hearth Tax file in the Havers volume.
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