Bristol Hearth Tax 1662-1673

"This edition publishes three transcripts of hearth tax material for Bristol: the 1670 Michaelmas hearth tax return from The National Archives in London (TNA) and the 1662 and 1668 listings from the Bristol Chimney Book housed in the Bristol Archives (BA). Alongside these are appendices contain supporting hearth tax transcripts covering outparishes within Gloucestershire in 1672 (TNA) and a Bristol Archives exemption certificate. This is the eleventh volume in the Hearth Tax Series produced on a county basis, published by the British Record Society in partnership with the British Academy Hearth Tax Project based at the Centre for Hearth Tax Research at the University of Roehampton. This edition is a co-publication with the Bristol Record Society. The survival of several hearth tax listings for Bristol between 1662 and 1673 offers a detailed insight into the people and places of one of England's leading provincial cities as it began a renewed period of growth and prosperity as an Atlantic trading port and manufacturing centre. With a wealth of names and topographical information about Bristolians, supplemented by several appendices with further documentary evidence and biographical