The King's Customs. An account of maritime revenue and contraband traffic in England, Scotland and Ireland, from the earliest times to the year 1800
Details:
- Author(s) Atton, Henry, & Henry H Holland
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1908
- Pages 489pp
- Publisher E P Dutton
- Place Published New York NY
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- Name Taxation agencies
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Early history of customs and their administration. Has sections: 'Domain of conjecture - the period of partial illumination, Edward I, Edward II'; 'The subsidy of wool, and of tunnage and poundage'; 'The periods of vigorous imposts and petty prohibitions'; 'The period of proclamations and ordinances'; 'The old subsidy and its earliest offshoots'; 'The Scots' contribution and the growth of smuggling'; 'The period of frantic restrictions and fearless smuggling'; 'The period of fiscal chaos and colonial disruption'; 'The great reformation in method and the subsequent lapses'; 'Customs Literati'