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A French Collector
A French collector has just paid a successful visit to the marche aux puces (flea market)

Tax Receipt 1802
Receipt for taxes paid by William Deedham, including Window Tax, Male Servant, Carriages & Horses, but no dog. All this set him back upwards of 23 pounds

Hester Thrale / Home
HENRY AND HESTER THRALE Thrale Place, Streatham, where Dr Samuel Johnson paid frequent visits to his friends, Henry and Hester Thrale

Ransom Money Paid
Ransom money is paid to Turks to release captured French knights

Cable Passing Out
The cable passes out from the hold of the Great Eastern onto the deck where it is paid out : a team of crewmen keep constant watch to make sure it runs smoothly

Tips all Round
The traveller has paid his bill and leaves the inn, only to find that every man and womans hand is raised against him

CAB RUNNER
He waits at a railway station for passengers with a lot of luggage, then he runs beside their cab hoping to be paid for helping to unload the luggage at their destination

Tolls 15th Century
Flemish merchants pay a toll in order to cross a bridge - tolls were paid on entering a town or crossing bridges or passing through some lords lands

Tate Gallery Postcard
The Tate Gallery, Millbank, London, opened in 1897 : the architect is Sidney R J Smith Junior, and Sir Henry Tate, the sugar refiner, paid for it out of his own pocket

Pam Television Set
The new Pam Television receiver will cost you 125, tax paid : the picture size is 12" x 10" (30x25cm) : operation is simple as there are only two controls"

First Montgolfiere 1783
THE FIRST PRACTICAL BALLOON Montgolfiers first air balloon, unmanned, was launched at Annonay, rose to 2000 metres; the Academie Royale des Sciences paid for the venture

Mazarin Attacked
Cardinal Mazarin is dragged from his carriage by roughs, allegedly paid by his enemies, but perhaps its a put-up job on the Cardinals part ?

Italian Steam Tram
Steam trams are a nuisance in cities, but on rural routes like this Italian example they are economical and provide low cost transportation for low- paid workers

Judas Rejects the Silver
Judas regrets that he betrayed Jesus : he rejects the thirty pieces of silver paid him by the High Priests, and goes into the fields and hangs himself

Valet to George I
LEWIS MAXIMILIAN MAHOMET Imprisoned by Hungarian Imperialists, employed by George I, became a Christian, did many good works i.e paid debts of over 300 prisoners

English Foxhound
No country in Europe can boast of Fox-Hounds equal in swiftness, strength, or agility, to those of Britain, where the utmost attention is paid to their breeding

Ammunition Tax Receipt
Even victorious wars must be paid for : this tax receipt (for sixpence) is for ammunition for Marlboroughs army in the Spanish Succession war

Trader Boycotted
A shopkeeper of county Mayo, who has paid his rent despite Land League instructions to refuse, is boycotted by his customers

Licensing Bill Demo
March of the opponents to the Licensing Bill showing a crowd of 130, 000, half of which had been paid for by brewers to travel to London at reduced fares. The bill sought to

Judas Repents
he throws down the 30 pieces of silver which were paid him as a reward for betraying Jesus

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