Pillaton Parish
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 for Pillaton only 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. Notes may refer to the differences between the two collections.
John TRENNAMAN of tremone 3 ex
George GILL 2 ex
Theobald RICHARD 2 ex
Mary VIGERS 2 ex
Walter HORWELL 5 ex
John FOUND 1 ex
John DODGE 3 ex
George CHARLTON 4 ex
John SPILLER 2 ex
Grace SPILLER 2 one fallen down
Richard BICTON 5 1 fallen down & now George Charleton
John STEPHEN 2 ex
John MOONE 4 ex
John RADDON 2 ex
John TRAPPINGE 2 ex
Edward WEBB 2 ret one short
Nicholas HODGE 1 ret one short
Henry JORY 2 ex
John HODGE 1 ex
Henry CLERK 1 ex
Christopher HERRINGE 2 ret one short
Nathaniel VINCENT 3 ret one short
Ralph HARRIS 2 ex
Agnes ROWE and her daughter 3 ex
William ELLIOTT 1 ex now Edw Elyott
Dorothy HERRINGE 1 ex
John BOLE 2 ex
Elizabeth BOLE 3 ex
John HORE 2 ex
John TRENAMAN of pause 2 ex
Joseph WENN 2 ret one short
Robert HORWELL 4 ex
There is some question about whether this parish return is complete