This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1758 Excerpt: ...great Numbers of poor unemployed People give Reason for thinking so, it will be neceflary to pursue this Matter further; for I fear there is a dangerous Deception in it, and that this SHEW of INCREASE, is caused by the REMOVAL Of PEOPLE From LAND, faster than they can be Employed In, or are Wasted By TRADE. By Stat. 13 ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1758 Excerpt: ...great Numbers of poor unemployed People give Reason for thinking so, it will be neceflary to pursue this Matter further; for I fear there is a dangerous Deception in it, and that this SHEW of INCREASE, is caused by the REMOVAL Of PEOPLE From LAND, faster than they can be Employed In, or are Wasted By TRADE. By Stat. 13 and i+Cbarles II. Ch. 10. Sect. 1. Every FIRE-HEARTH was charged with A DUTY Of TWO SHILLINGS A Year; and by the 17th Section thereof, no Person who, by Reason of his Poverty or the Smallness of his Estate, was exempted from the TAXES toward Church and Poor, was to be charged with the Duty upon Fire-Hearths. The DUTY Upon HOUSES, before the present l'ear 1758, was TWO SHILLINGS A Year for each House, exclusive os the Duty on Windows according to their Number, where it exceeded Nine; and such Persons as were, on Account of their Poverty, exempted from paying the TAXES toward Church and Poor, were also exempted from the Duty upon Houses. Now this double Correspondence between those Two DUTIES, in regard to the Rates thereof and to the Persons Exempted from paying them, is a very good Foundation to build upon; for if the Number of Taxable HOUSHOLDERS In ENGLAND was greater Seventy 2Mrs ago, than the same hath been of late Years, it will incontestably prove, A DECREASE Of SUBSTANTIAL PEOPLE. U The, The Number of HOUSES in ENGLAND and WALES, at Ladydy 1688, was ONE MILLION One Hundred and Fifty-two Thousand Eight Hundred and Ninety-seven; according to a Manuscript Abstract formed by the Accounts of the Duty on Hearths; but according to another Abstract that seems to have been compiled about five or fix Years after, upon a more accurate Examination of those Accounts, if not from a new Survey, the Numbers of Houses in England and Wales were as follo...
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