Norfolk: Horstead with Stanninghall - 1805-06 - Land Tax

This tax was based on the value of property etc. and paid by the owner or (sometimes) occupier according to their agreement. It started in 1692 and valuations are based on those done at this date.

For more information on these records see the Land Tax Assessments page.

This Norfolk Record Office document [with the reference C/SCD 2/29/9 1806 and also on microform] is one of the Norfolk Quarter Sessions Land Tax Assessments which are arranged by divisions this one being in Taverham Hundred.

Other accounts available


- Churchwardens' Accounts -
Rates	1726	1739-41	1757-58	1775-76	1803-05
	1819-20
Payments	1724-37	1737-61	1765-77	1779-1803

- Land Tax Accounts -
Payments	1800-01	1805-06

- Apprenticeships Records -
Apprentices, Masters, Places and Trades

From 1798 a printed form was used which contained the following.

The original document had the following headings spelt out in full. They have been contracted to allow for a clearer display. Note also that the majority of the values have not been done for this year.

Names of Proprietors = "Names of Proprietors
Listed Alphabetically"
Value = "Valuation"
Exon = "Sums assessed & exonerated"
Not Exon = "Sums assessed & not exonerated"
Estate = "Sums assessed of PERSONAL ESTATES STOCK"
OFF = "Sums assessed of OFFICES ANNUAL AMOUNT"
YEAR PAY = "TOTAL of YEARLY PAYMENTS"
QTR PAY = "QUARTERLY PAYMENTS"

Norfolk to Wit
For the Parish of Horstead with Stanninghall

An Assessment for one Year, from the 5th April, 1805, to the 5th April, 1806, made in pursuance of an Act passed in the 38th Year of the Reign of his Majesty George the Third, for granting an Aid to His Majesty, by a LAND TAX to be raised in Great Britain, for the Service of the Year 1798, and made perpetual by another Act passed in the 38th Year of the Reign of his said Majesty and also in pursuance of another Act passed in the 39th Year of the Reign of his said Majesty's Reign, for continuing and granting to his Majesty a Duty on Pensions, Offices, and Personal Estate, &c. for the Service of the Year 1805.


		Exon		Not Exon
Names of Proprietors	Occupiers	Value £ Rent	£.s.d	Value £ Rent	£.s.d	Est ate £.s.d	OFF £.s.d	YEAR PAY £.s.d	QTR PAY £.s.d
Lord Anson	Tho^s Fisk			3	-/14/8
T H Batcheler Esq^r	Himself			70	14/1/4
D^o	W^m Lee			37	7/8/4
Rob^t Baret Esq^r	Himself			94	18/19/8
D^o	Chris[topher] Grix			16	3/5/-
D^o	Sam^l Utting			8	1/15/-
Tho^s Blake Esq^r	Himself			34	6/17/6
Rev^d Ch Grape D.D.	D^o Rectory	48	9/12/4
Will^m Gedge	Himself	9	1/16/-
Siday Hawes	Tho^s Ewing			15	3/-/4
Will^m Hilling	Ed^w Pank			3	-/13/4
Sir Roger Kerrison	Sam^l Utting	74	14/16/10
W^m Oakes	Himself			9	1/18/6
Lord Suffield	Geo Barber			112	22/11/4
D^o	Tho^s Read			9	1/16/4
H. P. Watts Esq^r	W^m Baker?			72	14/10/10
D^o	Himself			21	4/6/4
D^o	Spooner Nash			22	4/10/-
D^o	Rob^t Watts? (*)			-/16/8	-/3/4
City of Norwich	W^m Gedge	7	1/8/10

[End of Document]

Notes

The quality of the fiche is very poor.
There is also a Robert Worts paying rates in 1805.
The rate of taxation does not seem to equate to 4/- per pound?

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