Dick, Stewart, Allingham, Helen Paterson, 1848-1926 · London, E. Arnold · leaf 230
es 11., and a house-tax was imposed,formed on the model of a French one, a charge beinglevied on every hearth or stove in the house. Thetax was known as hearth-money or chimney-money,and the visits of the chimney men, as they were called,were resented and resisted as invasions of the Englishhome.… … NEAR ALDERLEY EDGE, CHESHIRE. THE STRUCTURE 119 could be counted from the outside without the needof disturbing the householder. And this time the tax had come to stay. Allthrough the eighteenth century it continued, risinghigher and higher during the French wars. It wasinterpreted harshly too.…
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