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.
Nidd
Taxpayer
Hearths
Notes
Taxpayer
Hearths
Notes
Francis Traps esq.
7
Mr Robert Brown
1
John Robinson
1
Thomas Cooper
1
Ralph Darlove
2
.
Edward Thorpe
2
Thomas Wilks
1
Christopher Wilkinson
2
Francis Wilkes
1
Robert Benson
3
Richard Allen
4
John Hardcastle
1
John Hardcastle
2
Ralph Atkinson
1
Richard Dearlove
1
Peter Shutt
2
Thomas Wilkes
1
Peter Wilkes
2
William Smith
1
James Farnell
1
Lawrence Parsons Esq.
10
Omitted for poverty 2. Robert Corner collector; John Walker constable.
