Black Haw – Viburnum lentago

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The Marriage Duty Act 1694 was a 1695 act of the Parliament of England which imposed a tax, known as Marriage Duty or the Registration Tax, on births, marriages, burials, childless widowers, and bachelors over the age of 25.[1] It was primarily used as a revenue raising mechanism for war on France and as a means of ensuring that proper records were kept by Anglican church officials. The tax was found ineffective and abolished by 1706.[2]

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  1. ^ "The Marriage Duty Act: an introduction". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
  2. ^ Gibson, Jeremy. The Hearth Tax, Other Later Stuart Tax Lists, and the Association Oath Rolls: FFHS, 1996.

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