. London . rance offices. The premiumfor insurance on houses and goods not called hazardous wasgenerally two shillings per cent, on any sum under £1,000,half a crown on all sums between £1,000 and £2,000, andthree and sixpence on all sums over £3,000, so that a maninsuring his house and furniture for £2,500 would pay anannual premium of £4 ys. 6d. The taxes of a house amounted to about half the was the land-tax of four shillings in the pound ; thehouse-tax of sixpence to a shilling in the pound ; the poor-rate, varying from one shilling to six shillings in the pound ; 3^4 LONDON the
. London . rance offices. The premiumfor insurance on houses and goods not called hazardous wasgenerally two shillings per cent, on any sum under £1,000,half a crown on all sums between £1,000 and £2,000, andthree and sixpence on all sums over £3,000, so that a maninsuring his house and furniture for £2,500 would pay anannual premium of £4 ys. 6d. The taxes of a house amounted to about half the was the land-tax of four shillings in the pound ; thehouse-tax of sixpence to a shilling in the pound ; the poor-rate, varying from one shilling to six shillings in the pound ; 3^4 LONDON the window-tax, which made you pay first three shillings foryour house, and then, with certain exceptions, twopenceextra for every window, so that a house of fourteen windowspaid four and sixpence. In the year 1784 this tax wasincreased in order to take the duty off tea. The church-wardens rate for repairing the church ; the paving-rate, of oneand sixpence in the pound ; the watch ; the Easter offerings,. S&
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