Parish of Callington
Hearth Tax 1662/1664
The Hearth Tax was an attempt to tax people according to their wealth, working on the principle that the wealthier they were the more hearth’s they would have in their home. The tax and variants were in existence for several decades but records in Cornwall generally just exist for 1662 and 1664. It was often found that people had stopped up hearths after the first taxation in order to reduce their tax.
Abbreviations
‘r.o.p’ reason of poverty
‘bm’ by mistake
‘ret’ returned
‘ex’ is given in the original and stands for examination
William Heale 2} ret one short & now
John Mollford gent 3} in Molliford gent
John Tremere 1} for all
Ralph Westcott 3 ret one short
John Harrris 2 ret one short
Reignold Westcott 2 ret one short
Stephen Martyn 1 ex poor but John Westcott owner
Thomas Bowhey and William Wise 1 ret one short
Joan Lucas 3 ret one short and Reynold Stacy owner
Thomas Kelly 1 ex
William Honnicombe 2 ret one short
Anthony Horndon 4 ex
John Buland 2 ex
Robert Smith 4 ret one short
John Lethebye 1 ret one short and increased one by new building
Henry Crabb 2 ex
Thomas Finch 3 blockt up one
Sampson Buland 1 poor not rated by r.o.p.
John Treas 3 ret one short
David Condie 3 ex
Mary Hawkyn 1 ret one short
Philip Colling 2 ret one short
Sampson Symon 1 ex
Mary Lampyng 1 ret one short
Robert Sargent 2 ex
Thomas Rundell 1 no such person
Richard Drake 4 ex
John Hodge 2 ret one short
Richard Honnicombe 2 ex
Henry Westcott 1 ex
Anne Jenken 1 ex
Richard Salter 1 ex
William Horndon 4 ex
John Tozer 2 ex
Joan Jane 1 ex poor not rated ; etc by r.o.p,
Margaret Hawkyn 2 increased 1 by new building and now Thomasine Blunt
Samuel Horndon 3 pulled down 1 and now Eliz Drake
Anne Chapman 1 ex
Oliver Horndon 3 ex
Thomas Jenkyn 1 ex
Thomas Earle gent for Mr Jacob Prowetts house 4 ex
William Jewell 1 ex
John Dodge 1 ex
Agnes Thomas 4 ex
Robert Syncocke 1 ex now John Soper
William Geach 2 ex
Samuel Gessipp (Gossip) 1 ret one short
Robert Moore 2 ret one short
John Joape 1 ex
Thomas Souther 2 ret one short
Peter Martyn 1 ret one short
John Williams al Wilkey 3 ex now Anth Westcoat
James Hay 3 ex
Oliver Crabb 1 ret one short
Nicholas Scowen 1 ret one short & now Wm Scawen
Thomas Earle gent 1 ex
Daniel Condye 3 ret one short
John Moone 1 ex
John Clarke 2 ex now Rich. Salter
Anthony Pomeroy 1 ex
James Joape 2 ret one short
William Symons 1 ex
Anthony .Horndon at his tenant in town 3 ret two short
Philip Hancocke living in Ralph Wescotts tenement worth £.6 p.a. .
1 ex
Joan Skennar for Wlll. Honnlcombes tenement worth 40/- p.a.
1 the house fallen down
Ann Blunt , John Blunt and Thomas Edwards have in Reynolds tenement worth £11 p.a. 3 ex
Jane Hanneer in Anthony Horndon tenement worth 40/- p.a. 1 ex Reynold Stacey has in John Joapes tenement worth £3 p.a. 2 ex Nicholas Pawlyn in the same tenement 1 ex
Mary Hendy has in John Hodges tenement, worth 40/- p.a. 1 ex
John Hodge has in James Joapes tenement worth 30/- p.a 1 ret one short
133 ex.
Hearths not mentioned in the forme returns 6
Richard Deacon 1 27
Thomas Thorne 1 33
Anthony Ellyott or the occupant 1
Grace Martyn wid 1
John William 2