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
_That though the difficulty of computing the contingent values
of Land be great, yet there be greater reasons for undergoing
it._ 34
_The nature of Credit, as the said word is commonly used among
Tradesmen, and otherwise._ Ibid.
_That the Sovereigns exact knowledge of the Subjects Estates
would do them no harm._ Ibid.
_A description of the Duty of Customs._ 35
_A conjecture that Customs at first were a kinde of_ præmium
_for ensurance against Pyrates._ Ibid.
_The measures of the said Duty upon exported Goods._ 36
_The inconvenience of too heavy Customs._ Ibid.
_What Commodities may be forced to pay Customs._ 37
_The measures of Customs upon imported Goods._ Ibid.
_The inconveniences of raising money, by the way of
Customs._ Ibid.
_A Proposal, that instead of Tunnage and Poundage upon shipped
Goods, a Tunnage were paid out of the ships Fraight._ 38
_Or that the Customs were taken as an Ensurance_-præmium. Ibid.
_Of prohibited Commodities in general._ Ibid.
_Of prohibiting the exportation of Money and Bullion._ 39
_The said prohibition of Money serves as a sumptuary Law._ Ibid.
_About the exportation of Wool._ Ibid.
_The lessening of our Sheep-trade, and encrease of Corn-tillage
is an expedient in this case for many reasons._ 40
_Other considerations tending to shew, that the too vehement
prohibitions of Wool may be ineffectual, or to do more harm
then good._ 41
_Of prohibiting Importations._ Ibid.
_It were better to make and raise Commodities, though to burn
them, then not to make them, or let the makers lose their
Faculty, and be idle._ Ibid.
_Of Free Ports, and in what cases they may do good or harm._ 41
_Of Poll-money, and the sorts of it._ Ibid.
_The faults of the late Poll-moneys._ 43
_Of the most simple Poll-money, where all pay alike, its
conveniencies and inconveniencies._ Ibid.
_Of Poll-money upon Titles, Offices, and Faculties._ 44
_Harth-money is of the same nature with simple Poll-money, but
both are rather Accumulative Excizes._ 45
_Grants for publick Lotteries are Taxes upon the people._ Ibid.
_Why Lotteries ought not to be allowed but by good
authority._ Ibid.
_Raising of Money by Benevolence is a real Tax._ 46
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