IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/0114
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: HEARTH TAX
Date(s): 1670
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.01 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Unknown.
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
A hearth is part of a fireplace or oven. A tax on hearths was introduced in May 1662, requiring payment of 2 shillings per hearth in a domestic household. The tax was abolished in 1689.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Notes on reviewing hearth tax assessments and bringing them up to date for a speedy return to the Clerk of Peace and subsequent transmission to Exchequer. A review of Hendon and Harrow on the Hill assessments are provided as examples.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
One document.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to these records rests with the City of London.
Physical characteristics:
Fit
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Records deposited in February 1939.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: June to August 2010.