Hearth Tax of 1665 in Oxford
The Hearth Tax was brought in after the Restoration to help create a revenue for the King: it was a payment of two shillings a year for each fireplace in a house. It was not imposed on houses below an annual value of £1 a year.
Lists of payers of 1665 tax
Taken from H. E. Salter, Surveys and Tokens
(Oxford Historical Society, 1903), pp. 183–212
University (1,117 hearths)
Colleges and Halls
South-West Ward (627 hearths)
Parishes of St Martin’s (part), St Peter-in-the-East (part), St Aldate,
St Ebbe
North-West Ward (1,265 hearths)
Parishes of St Martin’s (part), St Michael (part), St Peter-in-the-East
(part),
St Peter-le-Bayley, St Thomas, All Saints (part),
St Mary-the-Virgin,
St John-the-Baptist
North-East Ward (1,021 hearths)
Parishes of All Saints (part), St John-the-Baptist (part), St Martin
(part),
St Michael (part), St Mary Magdalen (part), St Peter-in-the
East (part)
Suburbs (804 hearths)
Areas lying outside the old city wall, including parishes of St Mary
Magdalen (part),
St Thomas, St Giles, and Binsey
The lists have been reproduced in the original order, which means that some parishes are listed more than once under each ward