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La Narrativa de Henry Fielding y la Sociedad Inglesa del Siglo XVIII

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<strong>La</strong> <strong>Narrativa</strong> <strong>de</strong> <strong>Henry</strong> <strong>Fielding</strong> y <strong>la</strong> <strong>Sociedad</strong> <strong>Inglesa</strong> <strong>de</strong>l <strong>Siglo</strong> <strong>XVIII</strong><br />

5. TAXES AND FEES<br />

3 d. Duty per gallon on gin sales, mid-century<br />

5 s. Stamp tax on marriage licenses and certificates<br />

10 s. Tax on gold watches (one inn each household exempt) July<br />

1797- 1798.<br />

18 s. 2d. Tax on shopkeeper with 7 windows and an annual rent of £6,<br />

(1797)<br />

£1 Duty per gallon on gin sales, 1736-1743.<br />

License to distill gin , mid-century<br />

1 guinea Annual tax per male servant, ( introduced in1777)<br />

£1 5 s Average Englishman’s tax bill at the time of the American<br />

Revolution<br />

£4 Average tax assessment for all shopkeepers in York, 1797<br />

Annual license fee for a hawker on foot, until<br />

£8 Annual license fee for a hawker with one horse or other beast,<br />

before 1785 and after 1789.<br />

£12 14 s. Tax on a shopkeeper with 23 windows, an annual rent of £50,<br />

a dog and a servant, in 1797. 1<br />

Fuente: KIRSTIN OLSEN, Daily Life in 18 th Century Eng<strong>la</strong>nd, Daily Life through History, The<br />

Greenwood Press, Westport, 1999, pp. 199.<br />

1 MUI AND MUI, Shops and Shopkeeping, 81, 112, 114, 130. HIBBERT, Redcoats and Rebels, xviii.

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