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.
Stonebeck Down
Taxpayer
Hearths
Notes
Taxpayer
Hearths
Notes
John Joy
2
Widdow Joy
1
George Yates
1
William Joy
1
William Smith
1
Robert Joy
1
John Eaton
1
Humphrey Joy
2
thomas Topham
2
Robert Freer
3
Marmaduke Oddyman
1
William Ward
1
Nicholas Darwin
1
James Grange
1
Robert Atkinson
1
Widdow Craven
1
Marmaduke Lupton
1
Peter Grange
1
robert Moore
3
Thomas Burton
1
William Midleton
3
Widdow Craven
2
Thomas Atkinson
1
Francis grainge
2
Robert Freer
1
Widdow Spencer
1
Thomas Browne
2
John Browne
1
Marmaduke Horsman
2
William Grainge
2
John Grainge
1
Francis Langcaster
1
Thomas Freer
1
Richard Reynolds
1
John Gill
1
Christopher Gill
1
Lambert Thackeray
2
William Langcaster
1
Michael Geldart
2
Widdow Brooke
1
William Duffield
1
Francis Topham
1
Christopher Clarke
2
Margaret Baines
1
widow
John Craven
3
Miles Scowthrop
1
Christopher Hebden
2
Christopher Lawson
2
Thomas Hardcastle
2
Francis Paley
1
Francis Foster
1
Widdow kinge
1
Thomas Spencer
2
John Scaife
1
William Topham
2
Ralph Thackeray
1
The Lady Yorke
8
Robert Grainge
1
Anthony King
1
Ingram Lolly
1
Mr Umpleby Topham
1
John Coape
1
William Beane
1
John Fryer
1
John Grainge
1
Mary Wray
1
Robert Leathley
1
Francis Lancaster
1
John Pheynold
1
Thomas Topham
1
Robert Brookbanke
1
Marmaduke Lupton
1
Omitted for poverty 7. Robert Corner, collector; Henry Bayley, constable
