A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions
- Subtitle
- 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 conscience, &c.; the same being frequently applied to the present state and affairs of Ireland
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1. A TREATISE OF Taxes & Contributions.2. The Preface.3. The Index.4. CHAP. I. Of the several sorts of Publick Charges.5. CHAP. II. Of the Causes which encrease and aggravate the several sorts of Publick Charges.6. CHAP. III. How the Causes of the unquiet bearing of Taxes may be lessened.7. CHAP. IV. Of the several wayes of Taxe, and first, of setting a part, a proportion of the whole Territory for Publick uses, in the nature of Crown Lands; and secondly, by way of Assessement, or Land-taxe.8. CHAP. V. Of Usury.9. CHAP. VI. Of Customs and Free Ports.10. CHAP. VII. Of Poll-money.11. CHAP. VIII. Of Lotteries.12. CHAP. IX. Of Benevolence.13. CHAP. X. Of Penalties.14. CHAP. XI. Of Monopolies and Offices.15. CHAP. XII. Of Tythes.16. CHAP. XIII. Of several smaller wayes of levying Money.17. CHAP. XIV. Of raising, depressing, or embasing of Money.18. CHAP. XV. Of Excize.19. Errata.