Taxation (Subscribe)
Categories
- Church Taxation (3)
- Corn Laws (11)
- Danegeld (3)
- Poll Tax (8)
- Ship Money (7)
Links
A brief history of the Treasury
http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/about/about_history/about_history_history.cfm
An official history of the Treasury.
Dialogue Concerning the Exchequer
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/excheq1.html
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.
English Finance
http://29.1911encyclopedia.org/E/EN/ENGLISH_FINANCE.htm
Entry from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Brittanica. Courtesy of the LoveToKnow Corporation.
Taxation: A Brief history
http://www.inlandrevenue.gov.uk/history/
The Inland Revenue's history of Income Tax.
The English Revenue of Richard I
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m0293/467_116/76650910/print.jhtml
Article from the English Historical Review on the tax revenues received by Richard the Lionheart. Statistical data in included.
The Hearth Tax Project
http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/hacs/research/htp/research1.asp
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.
The Lands and Revenues of Edward the Confessor
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m0293/471_117/86230452/print.jhtml
Article from the English Historical Review with statistical data on the royal revenues and landholdings of Edward the Confessor.
The National Archives: Taxation Records Before 1689
http://www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/RdLeaflet.asp?sLeafletID=226
This research guide to official records of medieval and early-modern taxation includes a history of lay and clerical taxes in England and Wales.
The Taxatio Database
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.
