| 单词 | hearth-book |
| 释义 | > as lemmashearth-book hearth-book n. now historical a book containing a list of hearths for the collection of hearth money (hearth money n. 2). ΚΠ 1683 W. Petty Another Ess. Polit. Arithm. 6 The Growth of this City is Measured..By the Number of Houses, as the same appears by the Hearth-Books and late Maps. 1772 R. Price Observ. Reversionary Payments (ed. 2) Suppl. 362 It appeared by the same hearth-books, that the number of houses in the kingdom..was 1,230,000. 1820 W. Godwin Of Population ii. x. 224 The first three items are taken from the hearth-books, there being at that time a tax of two shillings for every hearth. 1901 J. Rae Contemp. Socialism (ed. 3) x. 303 Gregory King made an estimate of the distribution of wealth..in England in 1688, founded partly on the..hearth-books. 1982 A. G. Dickens Reformation Stud. ix. 193 This Yorkshire proportion becomes computable in the Hearth Books of 1690. < as lemmas |
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