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 After the Glorious Revolution, the hearth tax was repealed by the newly empowered English Parliament and agreed to by the newly installed William III and Mary II in 1689, as "not only a great oppression to the poorer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
English Land Tax lands. English Land Tax The English land tax was a national property tax introduced by Parliament in 1692. The tax was levied on rental values and applied both to rural and to urban land. No provision was made for re-assessing the 1692 valuations and consequently they remained in force well into the 18th century. In the 1690s, the tax raised around two million pounds, equating to roughly thirty five per cent of national revenue. Under what was to prove to be the last of the Penal Laws, Catholic landowners had to pay double the actual assessment of the value of