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 After the Glorious Revolution, the hearth tax was repealed by the newly empowered English Parliament and agreed to by the newly installed William III and Mary II in 1689, as "not only a great oppression to the poorer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
Pronunciation of English ⟨a⟩ hardly ever subject to broadening. Learned words, neologisms (such as "gas", first found in the late 17th century), and Latinate or Greek borrowings were rarely broadened. A particularly interesting case is that of the word "father". In late Middle English this was generally pronounced , thus rhyming with "gather" . Broadening of "father" is notable both in two respects: The Oxford English Dictionary describes the broadening of "father" as "anomalous". Dobson, however, sees broadening in "father" as due to the influence of the adjacent and combined. "Rather" and "lather" appear to have been subject to broadening later, and in fewer