A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions: Shewing the nature and measures of crown-lands, assessements, customs, poll-moneys, lotteries, benevolence, penalties, monopolies, offices, tythes, raising of coins, harth-money, excize, &c.; with several intersperst discourses and digressions concerning warres, the church, universities, rents & purchases, usury & exchange, banks & lombards, registries for conveyances, beggars, ensurance, exportation of money [&] wool, free-ports, coins, housing, liberty ofPetty, William, Sir
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A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions: Shewing the nature and measures of crown-lands, assessements, customs, poll-moneys, lotteries, benevolence, penalties, monopolies, offices, tythes, raising of coins, harth-money, excize, &c.; with several intersperst discourses and digressions concerning warres, the church, universities, rents & purchases, usury & exchange, banks & lombards, registries for conveyances, beggars, ensurance, exportation of money [&] wool, free-ports, coins, housing, liberty of
Petty, William, Sir
Finance -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1660-1688; Taxation -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800
_The nature and natural Measures of the Rent of Land, computed
in Commodities of the growth of the said Land._ Ibid.
_The Par between food or other proceed of Land, and Bullion or
Coin._ 25
_The Par between Gold and Silver._ Ibid.
_Gold and Silver are not natural Standards of the Values of
the_ τἁ χρἠϛα. 26
_The prime Denominations of the_ τἁ χρἠϛα _are but two_, viz.
_Land and Labour, as the Denominations of Money in_ England
_are Pounds, Shillings, Pence._ Ibid.
_Of the Par between Land and Labour._ Ibid.
_The reason of the number of years Purchase that Land is worth
in several Countreys._ 27
_Why Land in_ Ireland _is worth fewer years Purchase then in_
England. 27, 28
_The Description and_ Ratio formalis _of Usury._ 29
_The same of Exchange._ Ibid.
_The Measures of both._ 29, 30
_Why Usury hath been limited more then Exchange._ 30
_A Parallel between the Changes of the Price of Money, and that
of Land._ Ibid.
_How to compute and compare the Rents of Lands, in order to a
just Land-Tax or Assessment._ 31
_The intrinsick value of Land is found by Surveys of the
Quantity, Figure, and Scituation._ Ibid.
_And by the Survey of the Quality_, viz. _its aptitude to bear;
first, precious Commodities; secondly, the best of the kinde;
thirdly, most in quantity._ Ibid.
_The extrinsick or accidental value depends upon the plenty of
Money, luxurious or frugal living; the Opinions Civil, Natural,
and Religious of the People._ Ibid.
_If is necessary to these Enquiries to know how to tell the
Gold and Silver Coins of this present Age, and compare the same
with that of former times._ 32
_How to compare not onely the Money of this present Age with
that of the former, but the entire Riches of the present with
the former People._ Ibid.
_By the numbers of People, and the proportion of Money amongst
them, the accidental values of Lands are to be computed._ 33
_How to proportion the Rates of a Commodity in one place, unto
the Rates of the same in another place._ Ibid.
_That the Day-wages of Labourers and several other of the most
vulgar Tradesmen ought to be ascertain’d, and well adapted to
the changes of time._ Ibid.
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