| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - It is supposed that this measure was adopted in the interests of the shopkeepers; for as means of locomotion were very limited, in the remote districts the difficulty and inconvenience of reaching towns where shops existed were such as to cause trade to be carried on to a much greater extent then than now by peddlers, and by imposing a heavy tax on these traveling salesmen they were discouraged an
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