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Kearsley's annual eight-penny tax tables, for the year 1795, containing the new duties on Hair Powder, Insurances, Legacies, Receipts, and other Stamps; Stage coaches and pleasure carts Tea, Coffee and Cocoa Nuts, Sweets and Wines. Also an accurate Abstract of the former Taxes on Apprentices Attornies Clerks Auctioneers Alchouse-Keepers Bills of Exchange Brewers Brandy Dealers Bricks and Tiles Candles Coaches Distillers Excise Licences Game Licences Glass Hawkers & Pedlars Houses Horses Medicines Notes of Hand Paper Persumery Post Horses Receipts Servants Slates Spirits Stamps Stones Table Beer Windows Wire, &c. Likewise the new acts for the regulation of franking, The Payment of Soldiers Quarters, And the preventing the Use of False Weights
Kearsley, George, active 1791-1813.Date: [1795]- Books
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The British gauger: or, trader and officer's instructor, in the Royal revenue of the excise and the customs. Part I. Containing the necessary rules of vulgar and decimal arithmetic, and the whole Art of Practical Gauging, both by Pen and Rule; illustrated with a great Variety of curious and useful Examples. Part II. An Historical and Succinct account of all the laws relating to the excise, from the first Commencement thereof, to the present Time. To which are added, Tables of the Old and New Duties, Drawbacks, &c. on Beer, Ale, Spirits, Soap, Candles, &c. And a large and copious Index. Embellished with six folio copper plates, adapted to, and explanatory of the whole Work. By Samuel Clark.
Clark, Samuel, teacher of mathematics.Date: MDCCLXI. [1761]- Books
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The golden fleece: or the trade, interest, and well-being of Great Britain considered. With remarks on the rise, progress, and present decay of our woollen manufactures, Also An Estimate of this Valuable Trade, fairly and clearly stated, and the great Proportion given up Yearly to Foreigners, By Suffering (or Conniving at) the illegal Exportation of British and Irish Wool, and Woollen Goods throughly Manufactured in Ireland, to Foreign Parts. Likewise Heads for a Bill, to put an effectual Stop to this matchless Evil, so injurious to both King and Country. To which is added, a Scheme, or Proposal, For taking away many burthensome Duties on some of the most Essential Necessaries in Life, viz. Leather, Soap, Candles, Painted Silks, and Starch, by replacing the like Sum, in Lieu of the said Taxes, on a small Duty on Wool, and to replace those Officers, that at this Time are employed on Leather, Soap, Candles, &c. to register the Wool of Great Britain and Ireland; by which Alteration, our Woollen Manufactures may be afforded cheaper than at present, thro' every Hand they pass, 'till they arrive at Foreign Markets, and no Condition of Men will pay One Shilling, where they now pay Ten, on Account of the several Taxes beforementioned, and at the same Time, add many Millions yearly to the Trade of the Nation. Submitted to the Consideration of Parliament, as also the Landlords, Tenants, Manufacturers, and fair Traders, for whose Ease and Benefit this is designed.
Smith, Simon, active 1731-1739.Date: 1736]- Books
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Reasons humbly offered to the Honourable House of Commons, by the Master, Wardens, and Company of Wax-chandlers, London, for the suppressing of all mould-candles.
Company of Wax-Chandlers (London, England)Date: 1711]- Pictures
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Machinery used in the making of candles. Engraving by F. Appel.
Date: [s.n.]Reference: 37501i- Books
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The four farthing-candles. A satire. Inscribed to A- D-, Esq;
Shaw, Cuthbert, 1739-1771.Date: MDCCLXII. [1762]- Books
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A collection of all the statutes now in force, relating to the duties upon candles.
Great Britain.Date: 1726- Pictures
A black x-shaped cross with a yellow line woven around it and three lit candles across the centre; below, a frowning priest stands next to a dark doorway. Watercolour with gouache by N. Goullet, 1955.
Goullet, Nancy, active approximately 1954-1957.Date: 21/10/55 [21 October 1955]Reference: 2969689iPart of: Adamson Collection- Books
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Report of the committee of the Westminster Medical Society, on arsenicated candles.
Westminster Medical Society (London, England)Date: 1837- Books
Green Candle Dance Company forWard motion! autumn tour 2001 : participatory dance performances for children in hospitals and schools : evaluation report / by Alison Bax, with additional contributions from Sally Allsford.
Bax, AlisonDate: 2001- Pictures
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A skull, a skeleton, candles and other symbols of mortality. Engraving attributed to G. Altzenbach, [16--].
Altzenbach, Gerhard, active 1609-1672.Date: [between 1600 and 1699]Reference: 5i- Books
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The laws of taxation. Being, a concise treatise of all the acts of Parliament now in force, or that were ever made and pass'd, relating to the taxes of England, and the other Branches of the Royal Revenue. Wherein are set forth, the power and authority of the Senate in levying of taxes; the duties and charges upon the subject impos'd in all reigns; particularly on Candles, Soap, Leather, Malt, Plate, Stamp Duties, Land Tax, and Lottery Acts, Customs, Excise, Wine Licence, &c. The penalties for defaults in payment, and every thing necessary to be known by the Persons taxed, Commissioners of Taxes, Assessors, &c. To which is prefix'd, a preface, shewing how far the subject may be eas'd with respect to these taxes in the present times.
Jacob, Giles, 1686-1744.Date: [1721]- Books
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An Act for laying certain duties upon candles, and certain rates upon monies to be given with clerks, and apprentices, towards raising Her Majesties supply, for the year one thousand seven hundred and ten.
Great Britain.Date: 1710]- Pictures
Two cats with tails intertwined, and two candles, under a crescent moon. Watercolour by J. Bowman, 1966.
Bowman, Jean, active approximately 1966.Date: 14.10.66 [14 October 1966]Reference: 2917494iPart of: Adamson Collection- Books
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Report of the Committee appointed by the Westminster Medical Society, to investigate the subject of adulterating candles with arsenic; and to ascertain the probable effect of the use of such candles upon health and life ... / transcribed and reprinted by James Scott.
Westminster Medical Society (London, England)Date: 1838- Pictures
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Rome: a crowd of revellers in the Corso celebrate the end of carnival by snuffing out candles. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1830.
Pinelli, Bartolomeo, 1781-1835.Date: 1830Reference: 35900i- Books
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Instructions to be observed by the officers employ'd in charging the duties on candles and soap in London.
Great Britain. Commissioners of Excise.Date: printed in the year, 1725- Books
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The Ceremony-Monger, his character: in five chapters. Chap. I. Concerning Bowing to the East. II. Of Implicite Faith. III. Concerning the Reading Dons of the Pul[pit.] IV. Concerning Bowing at the Name of Jesu, and the Power of the Keyes, The Church Keyes. V. Concerning Unlighted Candles on the Altar; Organs, Church-Musick, and other Popish-Like and Foppish Ceremonies: Vith some Remarks (in the Introduction) upon the New Star-Chamber, or late course of the Court of King's Bench. Of the Nature of a Libel, and Scandalum Magnatum. And in the Conclusion, Hinting at some Mathematical Untruths and Escapes in the Common-Prayer Book, both as to Doctrine and Discipline; And what Bishops, were, are, and should be And concerning Ordination. Humbly proposed to the consideration of the Parliament. The ninth edition with additions. By E. Hickeringill, Rector of the Rectory of all Saints in Colchaster.
Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708.Date: re-printed in the year, 1703- Books
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Kearsley's annual eight-penny tax tables, for the year 1794 and 1795, Containing the new duties on attornies clerks, bricks and tiles, glass, paper, slates, stones, spirits, &c. The acts repealing the duties on gloves, and the registry of births, marriages, and christenings. Also an accurate abstract of the former taxes on Apptentices Auctioneers Alehouse-keepers Bills of Exchange Brewers Brandy dealers Candles Coaches Distillers Excise licenses Game licences Hawkers & pedlars Houses Horses Medicines Notes of hand Perfumery Oost horses Receipts Servants Spirits Stamps Sugar Table beer Windows Wire &c. &c. &c. The act of the present session which empowers the commissioners of stamps to stamp bills of Exchange in certain cases. And, among a variety of other acts of general concern, the bill for suspending the Habeas Corpus act, the New Penny-Post regulations, and the Act for the Due Observance of the Lord's day.
Kearsley, Catharine.Date: 1794- Pictures
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A tooth-drawer in his practice extracting a tooth from a seated patient who is surrounded by friends and family holding candles. Engraving by D.J. Pound after G. van Honthorst.
Honthorst, Gerrit van, 1592-1656.Reference: 16444i- Pictures
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A tooth-drawer in his practice extracting a tooth from a seated patient who is surrounded by friends and family holding candles. Lithograph by F. Hanfstaengl after G. van Honthorst.
Honthorst, Gerrit van, 1592-1656.Reference: 16822iPart of: Vorzüglichsten Gemälde der königlichen Galerie in Dresden.- Books
A blaze of candles on my cake : growing old when you're bisexual, black and disabled / by Jacq Applebee.
Applebee, JacqDate: 2010-2019- Books
From candles to computers : a bibliography of printed sources on the history of nursing in New Zealand / Patricia A. Sargison.
Sargison, Patricia A. (Patricia Ann), 1952-Date: 1986- Pictures
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Six kittens in a canopied bed woken by a mouse; three candles in the foreground. Watercolour by G. Hope Tait, ca. 1900.
Tait, Geo. Hope (George Hope), 1861-1943.Date: 1900Reference: 577204i- Pictures
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Six kittens asleep in a canopied bed; a mouse and three candles in the foreground. Watercolour by G. Hope Tait, ca. 1900.
Tait, Geo. Hope (George Hope), 1861-1943.Date: 1900Reference: 577202i