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.
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Language: | English |
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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]
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Edition: | The second edition; with a continuation to the end of the last reign. |
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