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Kent Hearth Tax

21 x 29.7 cm. 77 pp. Limp covers Available from the Society's Librarian, Mr E. Field, 57, Cherry Drive, Canterbury, Kent, at £3.00 plus postage for members and £3.50 for non-members.

The latest publication from the Kent Family History Society - Kent Hearth Tax Enrolled Assessment of 1664 for the Lathe of St. Augustine is the most ambitious and valuable to date. The Kent Family History Society, which is carrying out an extensive programme of original research particularly in the field of churchyard monumental inscriptions, has recently extended its work into documentary research and the volume under review is a product of this work.

Kent Hearth Tax includes a useful introduction by the editor and an even more helpful alphabetical index of all those East Kent persons paying the Tax in 1664, which should prove essential to researchers.

The book has been published in a limited and numbered edition which should prove an added attraction to Kent bibliophiles and book collectors.

Research Objectives in British Archaeology

Edited by Charles Thomas Limp covers £1.85.

This discussion paper, which is a publication of the CBA's Research Board, presents the research objectives defined by each of the CBA's seven research committees - the committees for aerial archaeology, churches, the countryside, historic buildings, industrial archaeology, urban research, and archaeological science. Together they form a comprehensive and unified statement of the gaps that need to be filled in all these disciplines and the most rewarding directions that future work should take.

As the CBA's President says in his Introduction: "This booklet is about what we want to know.