Key term for OCR GCSE History B, used in Early Modern Britain c.1500–c.1750.
A compulsory local tax collected from the wealthy to support those trapped in quarantine so they would not leave to find food.
Plague Tax appears in OCR GCSE History B revision content for The People’s Health (c.1250–Present), especially Early Modern Britain c.1500–c.1750 and Responses to plague.
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