Obs. A tax of two shillings per annum on every fire-hearth in England and Wales, imposed by Act 13 & 14. Chas. II., repealed by 1 Wm. & Mary; any similar tax.
1664. Earl Orrery, State Lett. (1743), I. 155. The payments of hearth and chimney money.
1665. Surv. Aff. Netherl., 74. Chimney-money and Excise is imposed.
1666. Pepys, Diary, 15 Oct. One moved that the chimney-money might be taken from the King.
1689. Address fr. Northumbld., 17 July, in Lond. Gaz., No. 2483/1. Your Majesties great Clemency and unexampled Favour in freeing and easing Your Subjects from the Burthen of Chimney-Money.
a. 1714. Burnet, Own Time, v. (1734), II. 13. The King, as he had come through the Western Countries … had been in many places moved to discharge the chimney money.
