Hearth tax significant proportion of householders were not liable to pay at all. The hearth tax was much resented because it often entailed inspection of the interior of dwellings by the sub-collectors and petty constables, who had legal authority to enter every property to check on the number of hearths. Some people stopped up their chimneys so that the tax was not due on them, but where this was discovered by the assessors the tax was doubled. On 31 July 1684, a fire in Churchill, Oxfordshire, destroyed 20 houses and many other buildings, and killed four people. It was apparently caused by
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