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An official history of the Treasury.

A late twelfth century essay concerning all that went on at the bi-yearly meetings of the medieval exchequer officials, and branches out into a description of all the sources of revenue of the English crown, and of the methods of collecting them. From the Medieval Sourcebook.

Entry from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Brittanica. Courtesy of the LoveToKnow Corporation.

The Inland Revenue's history of Income Tax.

Article from the English Historical Review on the tax revenues received by Richard the Lionheart. Statistical data in included.

The Hearth Tax was levied between 1662 and 1689 at the rate of two shillings per annum, on each hearth in a building. A project of Rohampton University's Centre for Research in English Local and Regional History.

Article from the English Historical Review with statistical data on the royal revenues and landholdings of Edward the Confessor.

This research guide to official records of medieval and early-modern taxation includes a history of lay and clerical taxes in England and Wales.

A database containing the valuation, plus related details, of the English and Welsh parish churches and prebends listed in the ecclesiastical taxation assessment of 1291-2.