Seventeenth Century Tax and Other Lists

1. 1599 and 1603 Subsidy Rolls - Scarsdale Hundred

2. 1633 Freeholders List - Scarsdale Hundred

From "The Vills and Freeholders of Derbyshire 1633" - DAJ, 6, 1884, p49

3. 1641/2 Protestation Returns

4. 1661 The Free and Voluntary Present

Transcribed by David Clay, Derbys. Family History Soc., 1992.

5. Hearth Tax Assessments

1664 and 1674 Nottinghamshire

From "Nottinghamshire Hearth Tax, 1664 and 1674" - Notts. Family History Society Record Series, Vol.24

1670 - Scarsdale Hundred

From "Derbyshire Hearth Tax Assessments 1662-70" - Derbys Record Society, Vol.7

1672 - South Yorkshire

From "Hearth Tax Returns for South Yorkshire" (ed. David Hey, Univ. Sheffield, 1991)

1. Subsidy Rolls

A Subsidy was the monarch's method of raising taxes. It was in effect a property tax. The first figure after the name is the value of the property, the second is the amount of tax payable. The sums are in pounds (li), shillings (s) and pence (d). (1 pound=20 shillings, 1 shilling=12 pence)

2. 1633 Freeholders List

3. 1641/2 Protestation Returns

All adult males in each parish were required by Act of Parliament to sign the Protestation Return. This was in effect a declaration of loyalty to "the true Reformed Protestant Religion" and to the king, Charles I. Most of the Derbyshire returns have not survived but many from Nottinghamshire and from Lincolnshire have and have been transcribed. Where the return has survived it is in effect a census of all adult males in the parish.

Lincolnshire

from "Protestation Returns - 1641/2 - Lincolnshire" transc. WF Webster, Nottm. 1984

Nottinghamshire

from "Protestation Returns, 1641/2, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire", NFHS.

4. 1661 The Free and Voluntary Present

In 1661 Parliament passed a bill to present the newly restored King Charles II with a "free and voluntary present" to assist with the costs of re-establishing his court. The money was to be raised by a public subscription. In Derbyshire the subscription was raised during Oct/Nov 1661. All the Brailsford entries are found in Scarsdale Hundred.

5. Hearth Tax Assessments

This tax was normally paid by the occupier of the property. Exemptions were made for property worth less than £1 (20s) per annum or less than £10 overall, and for the poor.

Typical number of hearths:
  Husbandman, 1
  Most craftsmen, tradesmen and yeomen, 2-3
  Wealthier ditto and merchants, 4-7
  Gentry and nobility, 8 or more

Derbyshire:

Note:
Stainsby includes part of Ault Hucknall
Rowthorne includes part of Ault Hucknall
Stretton includes Clay Lane, Egstow, Woodthorpe, Pilsley and North Wingfield

Nottinghamshire:

South Yorkshire: