The tax was collected twice a year from the year 1662, on Lady Day, March
25 (the official start of the New Year until 1752) and on Michaelmas, September
29th. The tax was 2 shillings on each hearth in a household, but those who
were too poor to pay were exempt. It was a very unpopular method of taxation
and was abolished in 1688.
Bishop Thornton
Taxpayer
Hearths
Notes
Taxpayer
Hearths
Notes
Mr Peter Ingleby
8
Richard Parkinson
2
Mr Steven Sutton
4
John Gill
3
George Linton
1
Mr Thomas Breareyson
8
Edward Williamson
1
John Joy
2
Mr Longe
1
milne
William Colberde
1
Margret Joy
2
William Atkinson
1
John Colberd
2
Jane Hawesworth
1
William Markenfielde
2
John Burras
1
William Whitelord
1
William Leadon
2
James Steveson or Hardcastle
1
Richard Wright
1
gent
James Wheelas
2
William Wilkinson
1
Mr William Wheatley
8
Thomas Shaw
2
William Shaw
3
Thomas Kettlewell
1
Francis Kendall
1
Hugh Gill
1
Thomas Atkinson
2
Peter Holmsley
1
George Parkinson
1
James Lowcock or Ralph
1
William Markenfielde
1
Pheynold Tompson
1
John Story
1
Edward Dyson & Francis Burne
1
John Holmes
1
Marmaduke Mease
1
Thomas Stevenson
1
Richard Bundall
1
Thomas Balleane
3
John Ellis
1
David Richmond
1
Thomas Snowden
2
John Browne
1
John Pheynold
1
forge
Thomas Brome
7
Samuel Rawdon
1
William Whitelord
2
Thomas Wilkinson
1
empty no distress
George Wainman, collector; William Parkinson, constable
