The royal treasury of England : or, a general history of taxes, from the Conquest to the present time. Collected from the best antient and modern historians; as likewise from many valuable manuscripts in the Cotton, and other libraries; as well as from some peculiar Offices in this Kingdom. Shewing when the Crown was supplied, and Impositions laid on the People, only by Virtue of the King's Prerogative; at what Time the House of Lords alone has done the same; and when reduced to the Parliamentary Method now Establish'd. The Whole intermixt with divers remarkable Occurrences; and a considerable Number of Particulars, which have not hitherto appear'd in Print. By the late Capt. John Stevens.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stevens, John, d. 1726.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Taxation--Great Britain--History.

Taxation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([2],xxxi,[1],374p. )

Edition:

The second edition; with a continuation to the end of the last reign.

Other Title:

Royal treasury of England

Place of Publication:

London : printed for Tho. Tebb, at the Flower-de-Luce in Little Britain; and J. Jackson, in Pall-Mall, near St. James's, M.DCC.XXVIII. [1728]

Notes:

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

Goldsmiths', 6621

Hanson, 3319n

English Short Title Catalog, T79880.

OCLC:

642702260