The Rates of Marchandizes; As They are Set Downe in the Book of.
Publication date: 1635
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The Last Customs Guide for Revenue Farmers [Great Britain]. [Commissioners of Customs]. The Rates of Marchandizes; As They are Set Downe in the Book of Rates, For the Custome and Subsidie of Poundage, And for the Custome and Subsidie of Clothes. The Same Being Signed by the Kings Majesty, And Sealed with the Great Seale of England, And Remaining in His Highnesse Court of Exchequer at Westminster: And by Speciall Commandment from His Majesty Published in Print, For the Direction of Such as It May Concerne: Together with the Rates of Such Impositions as are Laid Upon Any Commodities, Either Brought into the Realme, Or Carried Out of the Same, According to His Majesties Letters Patents Thereof Under the Great Seale of England. London: Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty, 1635. [ii], 13, [111] pp. Lacking final blank. Octavo (5-1/2" x 3-1/4"). Recent straight-grained morocco, gilt title and date to spine, endpapers renewed, edges rouged. Light rubbing, a few small scuffs to front board, some fading to spine, somewhat lighter fading to extremities, recent pencil annotations to front free endpaper. Moderate toning to interior, light foxing in a few places, trimming to fore-edge of leaf H6 (pp. [108-109]) just touching right edge of text with loss to catch-word but not legibility of main text. $1,250. * Final edition, one of two 1635 issues (the other in quarto). A guide to customs administration for private revenue farmers, who paid an annual rent to the Crown in return for the privilege of collecting and retaining customs duties. These rents effectively became an intricate system of short-term loans to the Crown and a way to raise funds without Parliament. This was the last such guide before the revenue farming system was abandoned as a concession to the Long Parliament in 1641. OCLC locates 6 copies of this issue, 1 in North America (Huntington Library). The ESTC adds a North American copy at Harvard. English Short-Title Catalogue (ESTC) S105551. Ashton, "Revenue Farming under the Early Stuarts," The Economic History Review 8.3, pp. 310-322.…
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- The Rates of Marchandizes; As They are Set Downe in the Book of.
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- Great Britain; Commissioners of Customs
- Publication year
- 1635
- Signed
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- Hardcover
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