hearth-tax

In 1662, he had used his influence for the benefit of the freezing patients when a hearth-tax of two shillings a chimney threatened the hospital and the shivering patients, for no fire was to be lit there, except in the kitchen.

Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

In 1662, he had used his influence for the benefit of the freezing patients when a hearth-tax of two shillings a chimney threatened the hospital and the shivering patients, for no fire was to be lit there, except in the kitchen.

Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

In 1662, he had used his influence for the benefit of the freezing patients when a hearth-tax of two shillings a chimney threatened the hospital and the shivering patients, for no fire was to be lit there, except in the kitchen.

Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

Hast thou paid thine hearth-tax to the heirs of thine king?

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Ye must know that after our reception -- which was cold enough, for we were about as welcome to the Privy Council as the hearth-tax man is to the village housewife -- we were asked, more as

Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

But the greater feudatories saw in the new hearth-tax a pretext for revolt.

The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) Reginald Lane Poole 1892

Too late, efforts were made to conciliate the Gascons; in 1370 a supreme court was set up at Saintes to save the necessity of appeals to London which had become as onerous as the ancient frequency of resort to the parliament of Paris; and the hearth-tax, the ostensible cause of the rising, was formally renounced.

The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) Reginald Lane Poole 1892

Even before the imposition of the hearth-tax, the Count of Armagnac entered into a secret treaty with

The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) Reginald Lane Poole 1892

And here the old Gascon wandered into lamentable complaints of the aforesaid hearth-tax, from which Eustace could scarcely recall him to answer whether the English Baron de

The Lances of Lynwood Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

The very peasant who grudges the State two crowns for his hearth-tax, willingly pays two and a half to have _Viva Maria_ scrawled over his door.

The Roman Question Edmond About 1856