Restoration households, taxation and working people of Norfolk

TY - CHAP

T1 - Restoration households, taxation and working people of Norfolk

AU - Wareham, Andrew

PY - 2019/6

Y1 - 2019/6

N2 - This chapter investigated distributions of wealth and poverty making use of both the returns published in the Norfolk and Norwich hearth tax edition, and a series of account documents which were recently discovered in the uncatalogued part of The National Archives E 179 files. It also used detailed investigation of vernacular architecture to draw out unexpected differences in wealth and poverty and proposed a new model for understanding the disappearance of the middling sort from north Nofolk (cf. Longcroft et al.)

AB - This chapter investigated distributions of wealth and poverty making use of both the returns published in the Norfolk and Norwich hearth tax edition, and a series of account documents which were recently discovered in the uncatalogued part of The National Archives E 179 files. It also used detailed investigation of vernacular architecture to draw out unexpected differences in wealth and poverty and proposed a new model for understanding the disappearance of the middling sort from north Nofolk (cf. Longcroft et al.)

M3 - Chapter

BT - Norfolk and Norwich hearth tax returns 1672-1673

PB - British Record Society

ER -