[4:8]. 
ANTIQUITIES. 
Order paffed by the Houfé of Commens in 
1641, rating every man according to 
his Lftate for the King’s Ufe. 
UKES 1001— Marquiffes 801. 
— Earls 60].—Vifcounts 501. 
—Lords 40].—Baronetsand Knights 
of the Bath 301. — Knights 20]. — 
Efquires 10].—-Gentlemen of 1001. 
per annum, 51. — Recufants of all 
degrees to double Proteftants — 
Lord Mayor 40]. — Aldermen 201. 
—Citizens fined for Sheriffs 201.— 
Deputies of the’ Wards 151.—Mer- 
‘chants firangers, Knights 40]. — 
‘Common Council-men 51.— Live- 
rymen of the firft twelve Companies 
5l.—Liverymen of othér Companies 
al. 10s.—Mafters and Wardens 51. 
—Freemen 1].—every Merchant of 
London 10]. — every Merchant 
ftranger, trading within land, 51.— 
‘every Englifh Merchant, not free, 
5l.—every Englifh Faétor, not tree, 
"i. — every ftranger Proteftant, 
Handicraft, or Tradefman, or Arti- 
ficer, 2s.—-every Papift ftranger, 
sand Artificer, 4s.-—-'every Widow, 
-a third part, according to her huf- 
‘band’s degree—a Judge and Knight 
. 20]. — King’s Serjeant 251. — Ser- 
«jeant at Law 201.—every one of the 
/King’s, Queen’s, and Prince’s coun-- 
eil, 201.—every Dodtor of Civil Law 
oSeks bi Oe 
and Doétor of Phyfic 101. — every 
Bifhop 60l.— every Dean 401— 
every Canon 20].—every Prebend 
201. — every Archdeacon 151. — 
every Chancellor and Commiflary 
15].—every Parfon or Vicar of 1001. 
perannum, 51.—every office worth 
above 100!. per annum, to be rated, 
every man who may {pend 50l. per 
annum, 1]. 10s.—every man fpend- 
ing 20]. per annum, 5s. — every 
perfon who is above fixteen years 
of age, and not receiving alms, nor 
formerly rated, 6d. per pole. 
ACCOUNT OF LONDON BRIDGE. 
From the Hiftory of the Principal Rivers 
0, Great Britain, Aso. 
E proceed to London- 
Bridge, whofe antiquity 
carries back our inquiries to a very 
early period of the Englith hiftory. 
The year of its foundation is nat, 
afcertained by antiquarian fagacity, 
but it appears to have been built 
between the years 993 and 1016, 
fince, in the firft of them, Unlaf the 
Dane, according to the Saxon Chro- 
nicle, failed up the river as far as 
Stanes; and in the latter, Canute, 
King of Denmark, when. he be- 
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