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Thus the law was dispensed with, which prohibited any man from going a judge of assize into his own county; that which rendered all Welshmen incapable of bearing offices in Wales; and that which required every one who received a pardon for felony, to find sureties for his good behavior. * Sir Edward Coke's Reports, seventh report. State Trials, vol. ii. first edit. p. 205. Parl.
| | In Portuguese Ships. || In Ships of other Nations. | | Articles. | || | | | Amount. | Value. || Amount. | Value. | | | | || | | | | | L. s. d. || | L. s. d. | | Ivory. . . Cwt. | 1454 | 35,350 0 0 || 515 | 12,875 0 0 | | Palm oil . " | 1440 | 2,160 0 0 || 6671 1 qr. | 10,036 17 6 | | Coffee . . " | 152 | 304 0 0 || 684 | 1,368 0 0 | | Hides. . . No. | 1837 | 633 17 6 || 849 | 318 17 6 | | Gum. . . . Cwt. | 147 | 205 16 0 || 4763 | 6,668 4 0 | | Beeswax. . " | 1109 | 6,654 0 0 || 544 | 3,264 0 0 | | Orchella . Tons | 630 | 23,940 0 0 || .... | .... | | | | || | | | | | 69,247 13 6 || | 34,530 19 0 |
Punishment followed quickly for the feudatories who had fought against the Tokugawa. Thus Mori Terumoto's domain, originally covering eight provinces and yielding a revenue of 1,205,000 koku, was reduced to the two provinces of Suwo and Nagato, yielding 300,000 koku. The three provinces of Ukita Hideiye were entirely forfeited, and he himself was banished to the island Hachijoshima.
The consular report to Washington for 1897 says the product of coffee that year was 26,655 tons; of sugar, 54,205 tons, and of tobacco, 1,039 tons. The number of bales of cotton is not given, but the consul expatiates on its fine quality.
At the date last named the circulation was $1,404,205,896, or $23.03 per capita, while on the 1st day of December, 1891, it had increased to $1,577,262,070, or $24.38 per capita.
The native settlements of nut-brown huts in the clearings of thick forests resemble heaps of withered leaves. The French have re-occupied a fort twenty miles up the pretty barless river, the outlet of a great lagoon; it was abandoned during the Prusso-Gallic war. Nine Bristol barques were lying off Three Towns, a place not upon the chart, and at Half-Jack, 205 miles from the Cape.
Then, those on the lower deck might drop over the side, or swarm along the windward gangplank to safety, but the pilot too often was hemmed in by the flames, and perished with his vessel. In the year 1840 alone there were 109 steamboat disasters chronicled, with a loss of fifty-nine vessels and 205 lives.
Next on the list came Mori Terumoto with 2,205,000 koku, and Uesugi Kagekatsu with 1,200,000 koku. The latter two were partisans of Ishida. But direct communication between their forces was difficult, for while the Mori domains covered the nine provinces on the extreme west of the main island, Uesugi's lay on the north of the Kwanto, whence they stretched to the shore of the Japan Sea.
The centrepiece had later been carried off in the time of the Swedish wars,205 and had found its way in some mysterious manner into this country gentleman’s mansion; to-day it had been brought forth from the treasury and it now occupied the middle of the table, forming an immense circle, like a coach wheel.
The illustrations on p. 205 of an arm chair and a stool, together with that of the tripod table which ornaments the initial letter of this chapter, are favourable examples of the richly-mounted and more decorative furniture of this style.
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