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.
Ripley
Taxpayer
Hearths
Notes
Taxpayer
Hearths
Notes
Sr William Ingleby
24
Mr John Kershaw
5
rector
Thomas Pallister
2
William Kendall
1
senior
William Reynold
1
junior
Mr Constantine
2
Bartholl Reynold
1
Peter Thompson
1
Francis Gailes
1
John Browne
1
Sr William Ingleby
1
George Pickard
2
Thomas Nursay
1
Lawrence Hodgson
2
William Cradson
2
John Haire
2
Mr Henry Darbey
6
William Wright
3
Thomas Browne
2
Thomas Linforth
4
mr Edward Hinkes
3
George Palliser
2
Thomas Hardcastle
1
Roger Coates
2
William Hornby
1
William Hay
5
Thomas Pallister
4
junior
Thomas Garforth
2
Henry Willis
2
Mathew Elsworth
3
Jane Goldsnith
2
George Browne
1
William Berwick
1
Widdow Cooke
2
Widdow Cyser
1
Widdow Atkinson
4
& forge
Richard Parker
2
George Melton
1
omitted for poverty 9. Robert Cowton, collector. William Reynold, constable
