单词 | hearth money |
释义 | hearth moneyn. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > benefice > other financial matters > [noun] > church dues churchseteOE church scotOE kirk scota1200 duty1431 droit1481 hearth money1660 1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 175 in Justice Vindicated Let the Hearth-money be first paid to the Church by every Freeman. 2. A tax on hearths or fireplaces; spec. (a) a tax of two shillings per annum on every hearth or fireplace in England and Wales, imposed in 1662 by Act 13 & 14 Chas. II and repealed in 1689 by Act 1 Will. & Mary; (b) a similar tax in Ireland, in place from 1662 until the early 19th cent. Cf. chimney-money n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > types of tax > [noun] > property tax > hearth or chimney tax focage1499 feuage1523 smoke-pence1584 smoke-penny1631 hearth money1662 smoke-money1662 chimney-money1664 smoke-silver1664 hearth tax1689 fumage1755 chimney-tax1855 1662 W. Petty Treat. Taxes vii. 45 Harth-money seems to be a Poll-money, but is not, being rather a way of Accumulative Excize. 1664 Earl of Orrery Coll. State Lett. (1743) I. 155 The payments of hearth and chimney money. 1689 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 506 The king sent a message to the commons, signifyeing that the duty of hearth-money becomeing a greivance to the people, he left it to their consideration. 1729 M. B. Let. to People Ireland 6 The Country People give Eight pence and more for the Change of a Moydore to Hearth-Money Collectors, and other Tax Gatherers. 1780 A. Young Tour Ireland (Dublin ed.) II. 66 The number of people at Corke mustered by the clergy, by hearth-money, and by the number of houses. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xi. 36 Importuned by the common people to relieve them from the intolerable burden of the hearth money. 1878 P. Dwyer Diocese of Killaloe 252 Dean Parry's house is entered in the Hearth-money Rolls as being in St. Stephen Street, assessed for eight hearths. 1935 J. Buchan Men & Deeds iii. iv.155 What with this matter of the cess and hearth-money—weary fall the Parliament that is aye laying taxes on us poor Highlandmen! 1960 I. Jennings Party Politics I. i. 8 It was therefore decided..to give one member to each of the thirty-one boroughs which contributed the most..by reason of the hearth money and the window tax. 2000 G. Miller On Fairness & Efficiency x. 263 More revenue was desperately needed, but William had repealed hearth money on his accession. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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