hearth-money

The Century Dictionary: The Encyelopedic Lexicon of the English Language · 1887 · p. 100

(hirth’mun’i), nm. Same as hearth-tax. W. R. His Majesty having been informed that the reyenue of the hearth-money is very grievous to the people, is therefore willing to agree to a regulation of it, or to the taking of it wholly away, as this house shall think most convenient, Parliamentary Hist., William and Mary, an. 1688-89.