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 After the Glorious Revolution, the hearth tax was repealed by the newly empowered English Parliament and agreed to by the newly installed William III and Mary II in 1689, as "not only a great oppression to the poorer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⟩ standard English without any vowels in the or area by the late 17th century. However, this putative gap was filled by the following special developments: The of the late 17th century has generally backed to in several varieties of contemporary English, for example in Received Pronunciation. The following table shows some developments of Middle English in Received Pronunciation. The word "gate", which derived from Middle English , has also been included for comparison. The table below shows the results of these developments in some contemporary varieties of English: <nowiki>*</nowiki> May undergo -tensing. Old English (OE) had an open back vowel