Note 1273 — THE COMMONWEALTH 1649-1660

Captain John Stevens, Royal Treasury of England, 1725. He gives no authorities and his figures are very doubtful, but Mr Dowell (Hist. of Taxes) appears to quote him as trustworthy. In any case the revenues of the republic enormously exceeded those of the monarchy. The anonymous writer of a Restoration pamphlet (The Mystery of the Good Old Cause, 1660) estimates that the Commonwealth raised £3,000,000 a year.