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Home Dictionary Name: hearth money Page 1 of about 4 results ( seconds)Chimney-money or Hearth-money
Chimney-money or Hearth-money, a Crown duty for every fireplace in a house, 14 Car. 2, c. 2. It appears to have been a most odious tax (see Macaulay's Hist. of Eng. Ch. iii.) and was repealed by a Wm. & M. sess. 1, c. 10....
Hearth-money
Hearth-money, a tax levied by 14 Car. 2, c. 10. It was productive of great discontent, and was abolished by 1 W. & M. st. 1, c. 10.A tax of two shilling levied on every fireplace as England, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 726....
Fumage, Fuage, or Fouage
Fumage, Fuage, or Fouage (vulgarly called smoke-farthings), a tax paid to the sovereign for every house that had a chimney. It is probable that the hearth-money, imposed by 13 & 14 Car. 2, c. 10, took its origin hence. This hearth-money was declared a great oppression, and abolished by 1 W. & M., st. 1, c. 10; but a tax was afterwards laid upon all houses, except cottages, and upon all windows, by 7 Wm. 3, c. 18. The window duty was repealed by 14 & 15 Vict. c. 36....
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