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
_Three cases where the way of a Benevolence may be made
good._ Ibid.
_Several reasons against it._ 46, 47
_The several species of Penalties._ 47
_A doubt whether the Penalties set down in_ Moses _Law ought to
be inflicted now._ 47
_The proper use and reason of every sort of Penalty._ 48
_Perpetual Imprisonment is a kinde of slow death._ 49
_In what case death, mutilation, imprisonment, disgrace, &c.
ought to be commuted for pecuniary mulcts._ Ibid.
_The meaning of the double and multiple Restitutions mentioned
in the Law of_ Moses. Ibid.
_Of the wayes for punishing or permitting Heterodox Believers
in Religion._ 50
_That the Sovereign may do either._ 51
_That all Pseudodoxies whatsoever may be safely muzzled from
doing harm by pecuniary mulcts._ 51, 52
_That the Sovereign by punishing them with death, mutilations,
or imprisonments, doth therein punish himself, and that too_
re infecta, _very often._ 51
_That the Pastours ought in some measure to be punished for the
errours and defections of their Flocks._ 52
_The true use of the Clergy is rather to be patterns of
Holiness, then to teach men variety of Opinions_ de rebus
divinis. 53
_The substance of all that hath been said in this whole
discourse about the Church._ Ibid.
_The abuse of Penal Laws._ 54
_Of Monopolies._ Ibid.
_The use and reason of instituting Monopolies._ 55
_A Digression about new Inventions, and the relations incident
to the Projectors of new practices._ Ibid.
_Offices instituted by the State, with Fees of their own
appointment, are of a parallel nature to Monopolies._ 56
_Why the Fees of offices were great heretofore._ Ibid.
_How offices are become as a saleable Commodity._ 57
_Why many superfluous Offices are not abolished._ Ibid.
_A description of Tythes in several particulars._ 58
_The causes why Tythes encrease._ Ibid.
_The Rent of the Lands of_ England _is but a quarter of the
Expence of the people._ 59
_The Tythes in_ England _are six times as much as they were
four hundred yeas ago._ Ibid.
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