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Petty's 'A Treatise of Taxes & Contributions'

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  • N Terry F on Tue 6 Dec 2005, 05:07am

    A Treatise of Taxes & Contributions,
    shewing the Nature and Measures of Crown Lands, Assessments, Customs, Poll-Money, Lotteries, Benevolence, Penalties, Monopolies, Offices, Tythes, Raising of Coins, Harth-Money, Excize, etc. With several intersperst Discourses and Digressions concerning Warres, The Church, Universities, Rents & Purchases, Usury & Exchange, Banks
    & Lombards, Registries for Conveyances, Beggars, Ensurance, Exportation of Money & Wool, Free-ports, Coins, Housing, Liberty of Conscience, etc.

    The Same being frequently applied to the present State and Affairs of Ireland.

    London, Printed for N. Brooke, at the Angel in Cornhill, 1662. by William Petty —
    http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/petty/taxes.txt

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1662
Dec: 19