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An Enquiry Concerning the Clock Tax, 1797. British Prime Minister William Pitt writes with a 'tax pen'; on his list are 'Shoe Strings, Knee Strings, Hair Strings'. Visitor: 'Please your Honor - I am a Delegate from the worthy and respectable Society of Hosiers, to know whether your Honor means to extend the new Tax to Clocks upon Stockings'.