Norfolk: Salthouse - 1801-02 - 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 2/22/9 1801 and also on microform] is one of the Norfolk Quarter Sessions Land Tax Assessments which are arranged by divisions this one being in Holt Hundred.

Other accounts available


- Churchwardens' Accounts -
Rates	1742	1762	1782	1782-1784
Payments	1721-1749	1750-1782
- Overseers' Accounts -
Rates	1796
Payments	1792-1796	1796-1801
- Land Tax Accounts -
Payments	1767	1801-02

[The Salthouse History website (linked from the village page) contains more information on many of the above topics]

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.

Names of Proprietors = "Names of Proprietors
Listed Alphabetically"
Value = "Valuation"
Exon = "Sums assessed & exonerated"
Not Exon = "Sums assessed & not exonerated"

The following 4 columns although present on the original have not been transcribed.

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 Salthouse

An Assessment for one Year, from the 5th April, 1801, to the 5th April, 1802, 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 1801.


		Exon		Not Exon
Names of Proprietors	Occupiers	Value £ Rent	£.s.d	Value £ Rent	£.s.d
Bunting Anne	herself			1.10.0	0.6.0
Cranefield John	himself			0.10.0	0.2.0
Coston John	himself			1.0.0	0.4.0
George W^m Clk for Rectory	Widow Spence			22.0.0	4.8.0
Grey Isaac	----			0.15.0	0.3.0
Hipkins George Bussee & others	John Johnson & Rob^t Seaman			37.0.0	7.8.0
Hardy Eleanor Widow	John Proudfoot			35.0.0	7.0.0
Hardy William Jun^r	John Jorden			1.0.0	0.4.0
Howard Widow	Peter Burton			1.0.0	0.4.0
Keymer Rob^t for late Abrahams	himself			1.0.0	0.4.0
Keymer Rob^t for late Daniels	himself			1.0.0	0.4.0
Lewis Mary Widow	herself			1.11.8	0.6.4
Lound William for land	himself			1.0.0	0.4.0
D^o his own	Himself? & Tho^s Matthews			1.0.0	0.4.0
Purdy Thomas for his own	himself	37.1.8	11.8.4
D^o for late Lewis's	himself	3.0.0	0.12.0
D^o for Sharmans	himself	0.15.0	0.3.0
D^o for Mitchells	himself	2.6.8	0.9.4
D^o for Lynns	himself	1.0.0	0.4.0
D^o for late Piggs	himself	1.0.0	0.4.0
Parsons John	himself			1.0.0	0.4.0
Smith John	James Edwards			1.0.0	0.4.0
Spence John	himself			1.0.0	0.4.0
Taylor John	William Dix	1.0.0	0.4.0


Outsetters
Zurishaddai Girdlestone Esq^r	Thomas Rudd Breame			11.0.0	2.4.0
Purdy Alice	hereself			6.0.0	1.4.0

W Mash? }
John Johnson }

Assessors

[End of Document]

Notes

In other rate documents the following alternative spellings have been seen which appear to refer to the same people/places:-
Purdy/Purdey
Thomas Purdy and John Taylor had paid 15*Yearly rate so that no more tax was payable on the two blocks of land.