CHIMNEY-MONEY, otherwise called Hearth-money, a duty to the crown on houses. By stat. 14. Char. II. cap. 2. every fire-hearth, and stove of every dwelling or other house, within England and Wales (except such as pay not to church and poor), was chargeable with 2 s. per annum, payable at Michaelmas and Lady-day to the king and his heirs and successors, &c.; which payment was commonly called chimney-money. This tax, being much complained of as burthensome to the people, has been since taken off, and others imposed in its stead; among which that on windows has by some been esteemed almost equally grievous.