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WARWICKSHIRE HEARTH TAX RETURNS: MICHELMAS 1670 WITH COVENTRY LADY DAY 1666

Written by Tom Arkell, Nat Alcock
Published by The Dugdale Society in 2010
ISBN: 9780901505552

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WARWICKSHIRE HEARTH TAX RETURNS: MICHELMAS 1670 WITH COVENTRY LADY DAY 1666
Written by Tom Arkell, Nat Alcock.
Stock no. 1829572
1st. 2010. Hardback. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Dugdale Society Vol. 43. Edited by Tom Arkell with Nat Alcock. The hearth tax was a graduated house tax based on the number of fireplaces within each household. This volume examines how the hearth tax was administered and how the reliability of some of its records can be tested. It also explores numerous aspects of Warwickshire's rural and urban society and describes a range of houses with different numbers of hearths. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xiv and 566 pages. ISBN: 9780901505552. Top front corner lightly bumped else appears unread. Pictorial dustwrapper has a few minor scuffs.

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Cover of WARWICKSHIRE HEARTH TAX RETURNS: MICHELMAS 1670 WITH COVENTRY LADY DAY 1666 by Tom Arkell; Nat Alcock

Contents

  • Introduction
  • Part 1 by Tom Arkell
  • 1. Restoration Warwickshire
  • Understanding the hearth tax
  • 2. The administration of the hearth tax in Warwickshire
  • 3. Warwickshire's surviving hearth tax documents
  • 4. Warwickshire's hearth tax returns for 1670
  • Parish analyses: Tables 8 and 9
  • Interpreting the hearth tax
  • 5. Urban and rural Warwickshire with Coventry
  • 6. Warwickshire's social and occupational structure
  • 7. Wealth and poverty: the elusive issue
  • 8. Summary
  • Part 2 by Nat Alcock
  • 9. Houses and the hearth tax
  • 10. Mapping the Warwickshire hearth tax
  • The Transcribed Documents edited by Tom Arkell
  • Warwickshire Heath Tax Returns Michaelmas 1670
  • Kineton Hundred
  • Barlichway Hundred
  • Knightlow Hundred
  • Hemlingford Hundred
  • Warwickshire: Selected Exemption Certificates 1670-1674
  • Barlichway Hundred
  • Hemlingford Hundred
  • Kineton Hundred Knightlow Hundred
  • Coventry hearth Tax Return Lady Day 1666 edited jointly with Nat Alcock