Heraldry, taxing armorials.- Stamp Office Alnwick Armorial bearing tax, unrecorded handbill from the year in which William Pitt imposed this tax, [Alnwick], no printer, 1798.

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Heraldry, taxing armorials.- Stamp Office Alnwick. Armorial bearing tax, handbill, folds, spotting, browned, 222 x 190mm., [Alnwick], no printer, 1798. *** Unrecorded handbill from the year in which William Pitt imposed this tax on any armorials displayed. Pitt had sought to improve the financial position of the country by increasing the rates of existing taxes and imposing new ones, especially on outward signs of affluence (including carriages (1776), servants (1777), houses (1778), horses (1784), hair powder (1795) hounds (1796), and watches (1797)).

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