Survey of London Volume 5 (Paperback)

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. 1903 Excerpt: ...every interment. In 1676 the printing of calicoes was commenced in London. A writer of the day says that "instead of green say, that was wont to be used for children's frocks, is now used painted and Indian and striped calico, and instead of perpetuam or shalloon to line men's coats with is used sometimes glazed calico, which in the whole is not a shilling cheaper, and abundantly worse." An Act passed in 1662 forbade the importation of foreign bone lace, cut work, embroidery, fringe, band-strings, buttons, and needlework on the ground that many persons in this country made their living by this work. The art of tinning plate-iron was brought over from Germany. The first wiremill was also put up at this period by a Dutchman. In short, the development of the arts was largely advanced during the century, and almost entirely by foreigners--French, German, Venetian, and Dutch. The income of the Crown does not belong to the history of London, except that the City furnished a large part of it. That of Charles II. was ordered by the Parliament, August 31, 1660, to be made up to, 1,200,000 a year. To raise this sum various Acts were passed. Thus there was the subsidy called "tonnage" levied upon foreign wine, and that called "pundage" levied upon the export and import of certain commodities. These taxes were collected at the Custom House. There was also the excise upon beer, ale, and other liquors sold within the kingdom. There was the tax of hearth money, which was two shillings upon any fire, hearth, or stove in every house worth more than twenty shillings a year. There were also the Royal lands, such as the Forest of Dean, the duties on the mines in the Duchy of Cornwall, the first-fruits and tenths of church benefices, the Post ...