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Request for compensation for the Boston Tea Party
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County: Oxfordshire. Grant description and date: hearth tax granted by Parliament...
Catalogue reference: E 179/255/4
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This record is about the County: Oxfordshire. Grant description and date: hearth tax granted by Parliament... dating from 1662 Aug-1662 Nov in the series Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Particulars of Account and other records relating.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- 1662 Aug-1662 Nov
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County: Oxfordshire.
Grant description and date: hearth tax granted by Parliament 1662 May 19.
Document description: Certificates of non-distraint, hearth tax collections, certificates of mistaken assessment, certificates of refusal to pay, letter, statement or deposition, certificates of exemption, warrant for collection, certificates of arrears, notifications of failure to submit return and wrapper for the first collection, bundle of 293 mems. Includes names of individuals. Now arranged into three bound files, these documents were originally kept in a leather pouch, which is to be found at the back of the third file.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Taxation
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Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Particulars of Account and other records relating...
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