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 2s. 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 burdensome 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.