Source 1: Pudding Lane hearth tax, August 1666
[This is a tax record for August 1666.
These people lived in Pudding Lane in London. The numbers show the amount of hearths (fireplaces) in each person's house.
People who owned a house had to pay a hearth tax to the king. They paid 1 shilling (5p) for each hearth.
This tax was collected twice a year. Some people might stop up their fireplaces for part of the year so they didn't have to pay the tax twice.]
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Mary Whittacre widow |
2 |
George Porter plasterer |
3 |
Widdow Gander |
1 |
Benjamin Burstow |
1 |
Thomas Knight glasier [glass maker] |
4 |
Alice Spencer |
4 |
Empty |
3 |
John Bibie turner [person who works with a turning lathe, a tool for shaping and cutting wood, important in making barrels] |
3 |
Thomas Farrinor baker
1 oven |
5
1 |
William Ludford plasterer
1 stop up |
3
1 |
Jones |
2 |
Susanna Noest |
3 |
Empty |
3 |
Lambe yard |
|
William Burgis hook & eye maker |
3 |
Joshua Sands plateworker |
2 |
Empty |
3 |
Nicolas Carter hooke & eye maker |
5 |
Widdow Grimes |
1 |
John Wardely clothworker |
4 |
William Walter smyth [blacksmith who worked with metal and made horseshoes] |
3 |
John Wells porter |
2 |
John Hasleby porter |
2 |
Widdow Pawley |
2 |
William Greene turner |
2 |
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68 |
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