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 After the Glorious Revolution, the hearth tax was repealed by the newly empowered English Parliament and agreed to by the newly installed William III and Mary II in 1689, as "not only a great oppression to the poorer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⟩ varieties of English, by analogy with "father". The table below represents the results of broadening before fricatives in contemporary Received Pronunciation. In general, all these words, to the extent that they existed in Middle English, had ("short A" as in "trap") which was broadened to . The exceptions are: The words "castle", "fasten" and "raspberry" are special cases where subsequent sound changes have altered the conditions initially responsible for lengthening. In "castle" and "fasten", the was pronounced, according to a slight majority of 16th and 17th century sources. In "raspberry" we find rather than . The pattern of lengthening shown