Description

A new unused book.

About the book >.>.> The Hearth Tax Project began by publishing what was considered to be the best unpublished assessment or return for each county in question. Since then the Project encouraged by the British Academy has extended its scope to produce editions of multiple lists where these add significant benefit such as when material is missing through damage or other omission from the single return. The Durham volume included additional material and the Westmorland volume printed four documents. The London and Middlesex volume drew upon both the 1663 and 1666 returns in order to provide comprehensive coverage of Metropolitan London. The East Riding volume printed the 1673 Hull return alongside the 1672 county assessment in addi- tion to 55 transcribed exemption certificates. The last reflects the new direction of the Hearth Tax Project increasingly to make use of hearth tax exemption certificates incorporating transcripts of these in its volumes thereby adding to understanding of distributions of wealth and poverty the development of vernacular architecture and increasing our comprehension of how the hearth tax was administered. (SP)