Hearth tax a baker who, to avoid chimney tax, had knocked through the wall from her oven to her neighbour's chimney. After the Glorious Revolution, the hearth tax was repealed by the newly empowered English Parliament and agreed to by the newly installed William III and Mary II in 1689, as "not only a great oppression to the poorer sort, but a badge of slavery upon the whole people, exposing every man’s house to be entered into, and searched at pleasure, by persons unknown to him." At the end of the Glorious Revolution in 1688, William III and Mary II also agreed
The Cloister and the Hearth picture of the past more faithful than anything in the works of Scott. "The Cloister and the Hearth" (UK, 1913) was a silent film, directed by Cecil M. Hepworth. The Cloister and the Hearth The Cloister and the Hearth (1861) is a historical novel by the English author Charles Reade. Set in the 15th century, it relates the story revolving about the travels of a young scribe and illuminator, Gerard Eliassoen, through several European countries. "The Cloister and the Hearth" often describes the events, people and their practices in minute detail. Its main theme is the struggle between man's obligations