Images Dated 8th August 2010

Reglement De Compte

The settlement of accounts by the Brotherhood of Charite-Dieu and Notre-Dame-de-la-Recouvrance of Rouen, France, 1466. The image is captioned Reglement de comptes de la confrerie de la Charite-Dieu et Notre Dame de Recouvrance de Rouen, en 1466. Miniature du Livre de comptes de cette societe, ms. du xve siecle'. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Taxes! Taxes! Taxes

Cartoon titled The Friend of the people and his petty-new tax gatherer paying John Bull a visit, depicting the tax man knocking on a door while shouting Taxes! Taxes! Taxes!, Great Britain, circa 1800. The cartoon shows a figure, surrounded by children, calling down from an upstairs window, Taxes! Taxes! Taxes! Why how am I to get money to pay them all? I shall very soon have neither house nor hole to put my head in with the tax man replying, A house to put your head in? Why what the devil should you want with a house? Haven't you got a first floor room to live in? And if that is too dear can't you move into the garret or get into the cellar? Taxes must be had Johnny, come down with your cashit's all for the good of your dear country'. By James Gillray. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Bartholomew Fair

Cartoon depicting men, women and children among the stalls of the Bartholomew Fair, a street fair and market held to fund the Priory of St Bartholomew, London, England, Great Britain, circa 1800. From 1133 to 1855 the fair took place each year on 24 August within the precincts of the Priory at West Smithfield, outside Aldersgate of the City of London. The image shows a man digging deep into his pocket to pay a stall holder while a group are seen dancing, with musicians pictured beyond. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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