English Finance
Entry from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Brittanica. Courtesy of the LoveToKnow Corporation.
Dialogue Concerning the Exchequer
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.
The Lands and Revenues of Edward the Confessor
Article from the English Historical Review with statistical data on the royal revenues and landholdings of Edward the Confessor.
The English Revenue of Richard I
Article from the English Historical Review on the tax revenues received by Richard the Lionheart. Statistical data in included.
Taxation: A Brief history
The Inland Revenue's history of Income Tax.
The Hearth Tax Project
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 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.
A brief history of the Treasury
An official history of the Treasury.
The National Archives: Taxation Records Before 1689
This research guide to official records of medieval and early-modern taxation includes a history of lay and clerical taxes in England and Wales.
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