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Excerpt from Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century, Vol. 1: An Inquiry Into the Material Condition of the People, Based Upon Original and Contemporaneous Records
Far bricks were employed in the construction of church edifices in that age has not been touched upon at length in the description of the use of this material in houses, because it seemed to be more consistent to include it under the head of the Religious Establishment. For the same reason also the scope of taxation and the powers of the vestries have only been dwelt upon incidentally to facts relating directly to the economic condition of the people. A full account of both would with more fitness be given under the head of the Political System. Similar limita tions, but in no instance of special importance, will be observed in other branches of the subject, as treated in this work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
