A treatise of taxes and contributions shewing the nature and measures of [brace] crown-lands, assessments, customs, poll-moneys, lotteries, benevolence, penalties, monopolies, offices, tythes, raising of coins, harth-money, excize, &c. : with several intersperst discourses and digressions concerning [brace] warres, the church, universities, rents and purchases, usury and exchange, banks and lombards, registries for conveyances, beggars, ensurance, exportation of money/wool, free-ports, coins, housing, liberty of conscience, &c. : the same being frequently applied to the present state and affairs of Ireland.
- Title
- A treatise of taxes and contributions shewing the nature and measures of [brace] crown-lands, assessments, customs, poll-moneys, lotteries, benevolence, penalties, monopolies, offices, tythes, raising of coins, harth-money, excize, &c. : with several intersperst discourses and digressions concerning [brace] warres, the church, universities, rents and purchases, usury and exchange, banks and lombards, registries for conveyances, beggars, ensurance, exportation of money/wool, free-ports, coins, housing, liberty of conscience, &c. : the same being frequently applied to the present state and affairs of Ireland.
- Author
- Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687.
- Publication
- London :: Printed for N. Brooke ...,
- 1662.
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- Subject terms
- Taxation -- Ireland.
- Finance -- Ireland.
- Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1660-1688.
- Link to this Item
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"A treatise of taxes and contributions shewing the nature and measures of [brace] crown-lands, assessments, customs, poll-moneys, lotteries, benevolence, penalties, monopolies, offices, tythes, raising of coins, harth-money, excize, &c. : with several intersperst discourses and digressions concerning [brace] warres, the church, universities, rents and purchases, usury and exchange, banks and lombards, registries for conveyances, beggars, ensurance, exportation of money/wool, free-ports, coins, housing, liberty of conscience, &c. : the same being frequently applied to the present state and affairs of Ireland." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A54625.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 29, 2025.
Contents
- title page
- The Preface.
- The Index.
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CHAP. I.
Of the several sorts of Publick Charges. -
CHAP. II.
Of the Causes which encrease and aggravate the several sorts of Publick Charges. -
CHAP. III.
How the Causes of the unquiet bearing of Taxes may be lessened. -
CHAP. IV.
Of the several wayes of Taxe, and first, of set∣ting a part, a proportion of the whole Ter∣ritory for Publick uses, in the nature of Crown Lands; and secondly, by way of As∣sessement, or Land-taxe. -
CHAP. V.
Of Usury. -
CHAP. VI.
Of Customs and Free Ports. -
CHAP. VII.
Of Poll-money. -
CHAP. VIII.
Of Lotteries. -
CHAP. IX.
Of Benevolence. -
CHAP. X.
Of Penalties. -
CHAP. XI.
Of Monopolies and Offices. -
CHAP. XII.
Of Tythes. -
CHAP. XIII.
Of several smaller wayes of levying Money. -
CHAP. XIV.
Of raising, depressing, or embasing of Money. -
CHAP. XV.
Of Excize. - Errata.