A Sketch Of The History Of Taxes In England Vol 1

Author : Stephen Dowell
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230473024
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book A Sketch of the History of Taxes in England from the Earliest Times to the Present Day Volume 1 written by Stephen Dowell and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ... except just to uote the first appearance of certain special contributories to the revenue in times to come. The first of these are coaches, private and public. introducAs far back as 1580 coaches, in the sense of carriages vat"0 pn for the nobility and gentry, had been introduced into and hackthis country by FitzAllen, Earl of Arundel; but it "iages.1" took a quarter of a century to bring them into anything like general use; and not till 1625, after the lapse of nearly half a century since the introduction of coaches, do we find hackney coaches plying in London, standing at inns ready for call when wanted. Ten years hence, their rapid increase in number has to be restrained by an order in council;1 and in 1637 a limit is imposed on the number of hackney coachmen in London, and licenses are required for them from the King's Master of the Horse. But, before this, the danger to passengers and delay to cart traffic caused in the narrow 'streets and passages of London and Westminster, and the suburbs of the same, by the unnecessary multitude of coaches therein used, ' has led to the introduction of the Sedan chair; for which The Sedan Sir Saunders Duncombe, on representing that 'in many chair' parts beyond the seas, the people there are much carried in streets in chairs that are covered, by which means very few coaches are used amongst them, ' and that he is willing at his own costs to provide a proper supply of such chairs, has a grant of a special monopoly for fourteen years.2 1 Rushworth, ii. 316. 2 1634 Foedera, xix. 572. For a picture of the hackney coach-stand in Palace Yard and a Sedan chair of the time, see Knight, Hist. Eng., iii. 416, 417. Buckingham, in tliu reign of Jamee I., had caused indig ciocU and The next to be mentioned of...