Kent white horse symbol - 9251 Bytes gbflagpolemd.gif - 63006 Bytes

Kent Online Parish Clerks




white cliffs of Dover
Saltwood, St. Peter & St. Paul, Kent © Copyright Matthew Chadwick - geograph.org.uk/p/5122618 - and licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0.
St. Peter & St. Paul, Saltwood Parish Church

Saltwood, 1664 Hearth Tax Return


Transcribed by Susan Young
PRO: E179/249/37A fol. 71: A TRUE DUPLICATE conteyning an account etc. (signed) Wm. Peyton Philip Packer, Chr. Dering Clerk of the Peace.

"An accompt as well of the names of the persons and number of hearths and stoves in theire respectyve possessions that are Chargeable by virtue of a late act intituled an act for the establishing an additional revenue upon his Majestie his heires and successors for the better support of his and theire crowne and dignity as alsoe of the names of the persons and number of hearths and stoves in theire respective possessions which are not chargeable by the said act which accompt being transmitted by the justices of Peace unto the clarke of the peace of the said county is by him engrossed in parchment to be still kept in the said county And now this duplicate thereof being signed by two justices of the peace and the clarke of the peace of the said county of Kent is transmitted into his majesties court of Exchequer by virtue of another late act entitled an additionall act for the better ordering and collecting the revenues arising by Hearth money.

A duplicate hereof was transmitted unto the exchequer on the xvijth day of August 16 Charles 1664."

UPPER HALF HUNDRED OF HEANE
(The Hundred of Heane contains only the parishes of Saltwood and Postling,
with a small part of the parish of Lympne, the church of which is in another hundred.)

Chargeable

SURNAMEGIVEN NAME# HEARTHS
ArcherJohn2
BakerWilliam2
HarvieThomas2
HogbinJohn3
JonesThomas3
LampardDavid2
LeeWilliam2
MarchSarles5
MarshallThomas2
NorwoodJoseph5
PilcherJohn1
RobusJohn1
SmythJohn3
StaceThomas1
TaylerWilliam1
WildingWilliam2
WoodlandJohn2


Not Chargeable

ColleyWiddow1
DorneWiddow2
HammondWilliam1
MillerStephen1
NewlandJohn1
StritingJohn1
 Joseph Norwood Constable 


UPPER HALF HUNDRED OF HEANE
CASTLE BOROUGH

Chargeable

SURNAMEGIVEN NAME# HEARTHS
BakerJohn1
Carter, Cler[k]Thomas5
ChedwickThomas7
EastlandPhillip2
GilesThomas3
GreenlandJohn7
GreenlandJohn4
HillPhillipp2
HolmesThomas4
HuettOsmond1
JohnsonEdward1
JohnsonJohn3
LednorWilliam3
RobusJohn4
RoseJohn4
SandersWiddow1
SladdenWilliam1
ThurbanWilliam2


Not Chargeable

BassettJames2
BoykinJohn2
HarrisWilliam1
HartHenry1
JacksonNicholas1
LednarWiddow4
MartenJohn1
RootesThomas1
StoneWilliam2
TurneyJohn10


THORNE BOROUGH

Chargeable

SURNAMEGIVEN NAME# HEARTHS
BeaneRichard3
IrelandThomas3
JohncockAquila2
OldfeildDavid4
TurnerWilliam2
WhitlockPeter5
WraightRichard1


Not Chargeable

HalesJohn2
HumphreyWilliam2
VaughanJohn2
 John Robus, Constable