| Matlock & Matlock
Bath : Lists Through the Centuries |
| Gifts & Aid to the King, Fines, Licences, Taxes, Land Owners, Hardship, School Charity, Police, Magistrates |
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The Eighteenth Century:
Horse Tax Register, 1785
A tax levied in the reign of King George III when
the government needed to raise money for, amongst other things, the
Napoleonic Wars. |
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£ = GBP
/- means shillings
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UK money |
Name and abode, if given |
Number of
Saddles |
Tax |
| Personal |
Draught |
| Thomas |
BODEN |
1 |
- |
10/- |
| William |
STONE |
1 |
- |
10/- |
| Edmond |
HODGKINSON |
1 |
- |
10/- |
| Luke |
WILSON |
1 |
- |
10/- |
| Thomas |
HILL |
1 |
- |
10/- |
| Adam |
WOOLLEY Jnr |
1 |
- |
10/- |
| Joseph |
SOWTER |
1 |
- |
10/- |
| Rev Mr |
HOLCOMBE |
2 |
2 |
£2-0-0 |
| Thomas |
PEARSON |
1 |
- |
10/- |
| Solomon |
MERCHANT |
1 |
- |
10/- |
| James |
SMITH |
1 |
- |
10/- |
| Thomas |
CAWWOOD |
1 |
- |
10/- |
| John |
JESSOP (Riber Hilltop) |
1 |
- |
10/- |
| Timothy |
TAYLOR |
1 |
- |
10/- |
| Wigley |
HODGKINSON |
1 |
- |
10/- |
| John |
WOOLLEY |
1 |
- |
10/- |
| Benjamin |
WIGLEY |
1 |
- |
10/- |
| James |
WRIGHT |
1 |
- |
10/- |
| Adam |
WOOLEY Snr |
1 |
- |
10/- |
| Jos. |
WALL (Tor House) |
1 |
- |
10/- |
| Henry |
WALL (Crook Stile) |
1 |
- |
10/- |
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Information in the table above researched by Mike Spencer and
published here with his kind permission |
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