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The cottage homes of England (1909)

Dick, Stewart, Allingham, Helen Paterson, 1848-1926 · London, E. Arnold · leaf 204

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be had at any price. There were none to get for no money. The corporation of Reading in 1443 passed a quaintbye-law, calculated to guard against the danger offire in two ways. It seems that the barbers of thetown were in the habit of shaving customers at latehours by candle-light, and it was… … |i.\(K^. iJOriALMIM.. THE STRUCTURE 105 to know the definition of town worthy), on painof being fined three hundred tiles to the Guildhall,to be received by the cofferers. Instances of pay-ment are entered in the town records. When tiles are laid, the laths to which they areattached are made of…

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