Picturesque English cottages and their doorway gardens (1905)
Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930 · Philadelphia : J.C. Winston · leaf 98
chimney-stack.And now we will glance at the windows. Inmany old cottages and farmhouses in Englandyou will see some windows blocked up. Theillustration of the house at Seend shows sucha bricked window. This was done on accountof the tax onwindows im-posed in theseventh yearof the reign ofWiUiam… … A VILLAGE HOUSE AT SEEND called fumage or fuage, and by the vulgarsmoke farthings, poll tax, window tax, anda law obliging us to be buried in woolen. Itis strange to our notions that the light ofheaven streaming through our windowsshould ever have been a source of royalrevenue. Lord Bacon inveighed…
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