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St. Mary, Selling Parish Church

Selling 1664 Hearth Tax Return


Transcribed by Susan Young
PRO: E179/249/37A mem. 1: 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."

SELLING partly in Rode Borough in Faversham Hundred.
Remainder is in Hundred of Boughton under Blean

RODE BOROUGH

Chargeable

SURNAMEGIVEN NAME# HEARTHS
BroadstreetGeorge3
CareRo[bert]2
CarterThomas6
CollierEdward1
CollierWiddow2
CorkeWilliam5
GilesJo[hn]1
GoddenAlexander1
HethJoseph1
KirkeJo[hn]2
LeeseLewis6
MaxtedEdward5
PhillippsJames2
ShrubsoleHenry1
ShrubsoleWiddow2
ShrubsoleWilliam3
SotherdenStephen1
SprattWidd[ow]2
StreetingRo[bert]2
SwiftWiddow2
WallardMark1


Upper Half Hundred of Boughton under the Bleane.

HARVILL BOROUGH

Chargeable

SURNAMEGIVEN NAME# HEARTHS
BerrieThomas2
BingJohn6
BranfordWilliam3
DavisMr4
GibsonThomas1
GilesEdward1
HillesNicholas2
HillesWiddow2
LeesLewis2
MarshJohn2
RuckGabriell2
RuckHam[m]ond2
ShersteadRobert4
SondesMr6
StreetingRobert2
TantonRobert2
TheobaldsMr5
TilbieJohn3
TilbieJohn2
TylerWilliam2
WatkinsWiddow3


Not Chargeable

AmbroseEdward3
BaldockWiddow1
BerrieEdward2
BirchWiddow1
CobelandEdward1
CobelandJohn2
HaywardGeorge1
MartinJohn3
MartinWiddow1
PooreJohn1
ReaderThomas2
SimmsWidd[ow]1
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