[Gutenberg 61588] • 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, with several intersperst discourses and digressions concerning warres, the church, universities, rents the same being frequently applied to the present state and affairs of Ireland.
![[Gutenberg 61588] • 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, with several intersperst discourses and digressions concerning warres, the church, universities, rents the same being frequently applied to the present state and affairs of Ireland.](/cover/t8L9jJ4NZMYnDQ3L/big/[Gutenberg%2061588]%20%e2%80%a2%20A%20Treatise%20of%20Taxes%20and%20Contributions%20/%20Shewing%20the%20nature%20and%20measures%20of%20crown-lands,%20assessements,%20customs,%20poll-moneys,%20lotteries,%20benevolence,%20penalties,%20monopolies,%20offices,%20tythes,%20raising%20of%20coins,%20harth-money,%20excize,%20%20with%20several%20intersperst%20discourses%20and%20digressions%20concerning%20warres,%20the%20church,%20universities,%20rents%20%20the%20same%20being%20frequently%20applied%20to%20the%20present%20state%20and%20affairs%20of%20Ireland..jpg)
- Authors
- Petty, Sir William
- Tags
- taxation -- great britain -- early works to 1800 , great britain -- politics and government -- 1660-1688 , finance -- great britain -- early works to 1800
- Date
- 2008-02-08T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.29 MB
- Lang
- en
The Treatise of Taxes and Contributions is the earliest of Petty's economic writings. Since it mentions Graunt's Observations, published in January, 1662, as "lately made," and inasmuch as Petty was in Ireland before the end of October, the Treatise was probably composed in the early months of 1662. About this time Petty, relieved from his political anxieties, returned with vigour to his scientific pursuits. He experimented with the Double Bottom, and wrote, in addition to the Treatise, his Discourse concerning the Making of Cloth, his Apparatus to the History of Dying, and a paper on shipping.