The Andrews Pages QuickList> Lists Through the Centuries> This page Matlock & Matlock Bath : Lists Through the Centuries   The Seventeenth Century Hearth Tax, 1670*   Lists Through the Centuries 16th C and before 17th Century Lists Ayd to Charles I, 1627 Free & Voluntary Present, 1661 Hearth Tax, 1670 Recusant Fines, 1681-2 18th Century Lists 19th Century Lists Volunteer Infantry Lists (1803-1808) School Charity 1814 Matlock, All Saints' School Before the Board at Bakewell, 1838-1841 Keeping Law and Order Manorial Records, Extracts from 1851 Owners of Land, 1873 Matlock Railway Station, Deliveries 1851 20th Century Lists Matlock Bath Men Serving King and Country, 1914 Hearth Tax assessments for Matlock in 1670 are to be found under the entries for the Wirksworth Hundred and are in lists nos. 25 to 29 (transcripts - "Derbyshire Heath Tax Assessments*", pp.188-190). In that year 120 Matlock households had to pay the annual tax, which was levied on the number of fire hearths they had. This was also referred to as 'chimney money'. Sonia W Addis-Smith has contributed the following explanatory notes and the alphabetical list of names: The Hearth Tax (or "Chimney Money") was in place from 1662 to 1689, as a useful source of national revenue. People paid 2 shillings a year for each hearth assessed. It was paid in two equal instalments, on Ladyday (25th March) and Michaelmas (29th September), by the occupier of the property, or owner if it was vacant. It was an extremely unpopular tax and led to rioting in some parts of the country, but not in Derbyshire. In the early days of the tax, people tried to avoid the payments by blocking up their chimneys and claiming exemption certificates for them. For Wirksworth, the records contain a list of 40 people whose wealth was "not sofishant" for them to pay the tax. The Assessment lists are now very useful to Genealogists, giving lists of all householders, village by village, living in Derbyshire in the 1660s. The list of Matlock people below has been resorted into alphabetical order, for ease of Genealogical searching. The figure following each name is the number of hearths or chimneys. Surname Christian Name Number of Hearths ADDAMS, George - 3 ADDAMS, William - 1 ALBOT, Thomas - 1 ALLCROFT, Henry - 3 ALLSOP, -----, Widow - 1 ASH, William - 1 BADSLEY, John - 3 BALL, Roger - 1 BECKE, John - 4 BENNET, William - 1 BOADON, Christopher - 1 BOLLINGTON, Anthony - 2 BOWDEN, John, sen. - 1 BOWDEN, John, jun. - 2 BOWNE, Adam - 1 BOWNE, Anthony - 1 BOWNE, Henry, jun. - 1 BOWNE, Henry - 1 BOWNE, John, Lin tree [sic] - 2 BOWNE, Raphe - 3 BOWNE, Thomas - 1 BRADLEY, George - 1 BRADWELL, Edward - 1 BROCKSHAW, Francis - 1 BUNTINGE, Anthony - 2 BUNTINGE, Edmund - 1 BUNTINGE, Henry - 1 BUNTINGE, Luce - 2 BUNTINGE, Robert - 1 BUNTINGE, Robert - 1 BUNTINGE, William - 1 CARLILE, Thomas - 1 CLIFFE, Robert - 3 COCKAYNE, John - 5 COLUMBELL, Francis - 2 FLINT, Henry - 1 FLINT, Thomas - 1 GRANGER, Widow - 3 GRAYNORE, Henry - 1 HASLEAM, Anthony - 1 HASLEAM, Edward - 2 HASLEAM, John - 2 HEATH, William - 1 HENSTOCKE, Edward, jun. - 1 HENSTOCKE, Edward, sen. - 1 JACKSON, William - 1 JOANES, -----, Widow - 1 JOHNES, -----, Widow - 1 JOHNSON, Anthony - 1 JOHNSON, Samuel - 1 KNOWLES, Henry - 1 KNOWLES, John - 1 KNOWLS, John - 4 KNOWLES, Thomas - 1 LACY, Henry - 1 LUDLAM, Thomas - 1 MARCHANT, Thomas - 1 MARSHALL, George - 1 MARTIN, John - 3 MARTIN, William - 1 MILLINGTON, William - 1 MOMFORD, Francis - 2 OATES, Robert - 2 OATES, William - 1 OGDEN, George - 1 OSLEY, John - 1 OXLEY, Henry - 1 OXLEY, Joan - 1 PARKER, Thomas - 1 Parsonage house, - 5 PERKINS, Henry - 1 PIDCOCKE, William, sen. - 1 PIDCOCKE, William, jun. - 1 PRINCE, Mathew - 1 RAGG, Adam - 1 RAGG, Henry - 3 RAGG, Rowland - 2 RAWSON, Anthony - 2 RAWSON, Edmund - 3 SHEPARD, Henry Shepard - 2 SMITH, John - 2 SPENCER, Edmund - 1 STEERE, Thomas - 1 STEVESON, William - 4 STONE, James - 1 TAYLOR, Anthony - 1 TAYLOR, George - 3 TAYLOR, John - 1 TAYLOR, Thomas - 1 THORPE, Adam - 1 TIPINGE, Robert - 1 TOMKINSON, Thomas - 1 TRUNER, William - 2 WALKER, -----, Mrs - 3 WALKER, Edmund - 1 WALKER, John - 4 WALKER, Thomas - 1 WARD, John - 3 WARD, John - 1 WARD, Robert - 1 WARD, Thomas - 1 WARD, Widow - 2 WATS, William - 2 WHITACKRE, -----, Widow - 1 WIGLEY, Henry, Mr - 4 WIGLEY, John - 2 WILD, -----, Mr - 1 increase WINFIELD, Anthony - 1 WOOD, Thomas - 1 WOODDEN, Stephen - 3 WOODDISE, Henry - 1 WOODWARD, Anthony - 1 WOODWARD, Thomas - 4 WOOLLEY, Adam - 3 WOOLLEY, Anthony, gent. - 10, and for the Milne - 1 WOOLLEY, John, sen. - 3 WOOLLEY, Samuel - 1 WRIGHT, William - 4 YOUNGE, Adam - 1 *Extracted from: Edwards, David G. 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