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... for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately taxed from two to ten per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel ; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble...

Journal of a Residence of Two Years and a Half in Great Britain - Page 272
by Jehangeer Nowrojee, Nauroji Jahangir, Hirjeebhoy Merwanjee - 1841 - 492 pages
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Growth of english in, Volume 3

1929 - 452 pages

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Pioneers of Reform: Cobbett, Owen, Place, Shaftesbury, Cobden, Bright

Dorothy Catherine Johnson - Great Britain - 1929 - 232 pages

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The London Quarterly Review, Volume 57

William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - Theology - 1882 - 584 pages

...has paid fifteen per cent., flings himself upon his chintz bed, which, has paid twenty-two per cent., and expires in the arms of an apothecary, who has paid a license of one hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately...

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