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Hearth Money

A tax levied In England by St. 14 Car. II. c. 10. consisting of two shillings on every hearth or stove in the kingdom. It was extremely unpopular, and wns abollshed by 1 W. & M. St. 1, c

Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)