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Papers on rates and tax assessments
Date: 1877 - 1914Reference: RET/3/9/2Part of: The Retreat Archive- Books
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Letters addressed to the Right Honourable William Pitt, Chancellor of the Exchequer of Great Britain; pointing out the inequality, oppression, and impolicy of the taxes on coal: and A Substitute for These Taxes on all Coals Consumed in England and Scotland. Also, A Substitute for the Grant of one Shilling per Chalder. To the Duke of Richmond, by King Charles II.
Macnab, Henry Gray, 1761-1823.Date: M,DCC,XCIII. [1793]- Books
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A complete collection of abstracts of acts of Parliament and cases with opinions of the judges upon the following taxes: viz. upon houses, Windows, Servants, Horses, Carriages and Dogs; the Duties upon Hair-Powder Certificates; and also the Twenty Per Cent. upon Assessed Taxes; together with the several determinations upon the post-horse act. By John Smee, of the Exchequer, Westminster, Gent. In two volumes. ...
Smee, John.Date: 1797- Books
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The British chronologer: containing yearly, from the beginning of our Saviour's nativity, down to this present time, the most remarkable matters which have happen'd in Great Britain; as to Apparitions, Witches, Battles, Victories, Comets, Edifices, Customs, Duels, Taxes, Synods, Tempests, Earthquakes, Tumults, Storms, Eclipses, Famines, Executions, Reliques, Plots, Frosts, Pestilences, Gifts, Persecutions, Murrains, Prodigies, Hurricanes, Idols, Inundations, Plagues, and Judgments: With the Beginning and End of the Roman Emperors, whilst this Island was in Subjection to them: The British, Saxon, Danish, Norman, Scottish, and Pictish Kings. Also shewing all those in the Time of the Heptarchy, as well as the sole Monarchs, from William the Conqueror, to his present Majesty, King George; and the most remarkable Occurrences, both in Church and State, from our first embracing Christianity. By I. P. Esq;
I. P., Esq.Date: 1720- Books
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Considerations on the nature, quality, and distinctions, of coal and culm, with inquiries, philosophical and political, into the present state of the laws, and the questions now in agitation relative to the Taxes upon these commodities. Contained in a letter from Doctor James Hutton, Physician in Edinburgh: To a friend.
Hutton, James, 1726-1797.Date: M.DCC.LXXVII. [1777]- Books
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A general view of England; Respecting its Policy, Trade, Commerce, Taxes, Debts, Produce of Lands, Colonies, Manners, &c. &c. Argumentatively Stated; From the Year 1600, to 1762; in a letter to A. M. L. C. D. By M. V. D. M. Now translated from the French, first printed in 1762.
Vivant de Mezague.Date: M.DCC.LXVI. [1766]- Books
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1787. The eighty-first edition. Price 6d. Kearsley's Tax Tables, including those of 1787, with the stamp duties complete. Also the Taxes upon retail shops, Houses windows, Bachelors attorneys servants gloves, Hats, Notes Bills oe exchange receipts perfumery Farmingpost Horses Licences Insurance, Game Horses, Carriages Hawkers & Pedlars Hackney coaches Watermen pawnbrokers, &c. &c.
Kearsley, George, -1790.Date: [1787]- Books
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The miseries of the poor are a national sin, shame, and charge: but by making them happy, we shall remove that guilt, raise the glory, and double the wealth and strength of Great Britain ; and pay old debts without new taxes. By the Judicious Employment of the Poor (under One New General Law) and Present Taxes (without any Land-Tax) we may Justly and Gradually Discharge (within Twenty Years) All our National Debts: And whilst those Debts and Taxes are thus reducing, we shall farther receive (from the Regular Management of the Poor) much greater Benefits than the Payment of those Fifty Millions. A Due Care of the Poor is an Act of Great Piety towards Almighty God, an Act of the Greatest Humanity among Men, and of great Civil Prudence and Political Wisdom in relation to the State. - As things now are, our Populousness (which might be made the Greatest Blessing a Kingdom can have) becomes a Burden to the Nation; by breeding up whole Races, families, and Generations, in a mere Trade of Idleness, Thieving, and Beggin, and a barbarous kind of Life: which must in time prodigiously increase, and over-run the whole Face of the Kingdom, and Eat Out the very Heart thereof. Lord Chief Justice Hale, in ... upon employing the Poor.
Braddon, Laurence, -1724.Date: M.DCC.XVII. [1717]- Books
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A serious address to the proprietors of the publick funds, occasion'd by several late schemes for reducing their interest, or subjecting them to taxes: in which The Rights of Publick Creditors are explained and asserted; Their Just Claim, from the Principles of Reason, Rules of Law, and Maxims of Policy, to an Exemption from Taxes fully demonstrated; And concluded by A Rational proposal for strengthening their Security, and for the better Support of Publick Credit. Humbly submitted to the Consideration of the Members of the House of Commons.
Date: 1744- Books
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A letter from a merchant of the city of London, To the R---t H----ble W---- P---- Esq; Upon the Affairs and Commerce of North America, and the West-Indies; Our African Trade; the Destination of Our Squadrons and Convoys; New Taxes, and the Schemes proposed for raising the extraordinary Supplies for the current Year.
Merchant of London.Date: 1757- Books
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A letter from a merchant of the city of London, To the R---t H----ble W---- P---- Esq; Upon the Affairs and Commerce of North America, and the West-Indies; Our African Trade; the Destination of Our Squadrons and Convoys; New Taxes, and the Schemes proposed for raising the extraordinary Supplies for the current Year.
Merchant of London.Date: 1757- Books
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An enquiry into the nature, Foundation, and Present State of Publick Credit. Wherein The National Wealth is justly calculated; the Present Inequality of our Publick Taxes demonstrated; and the Consequences that may naturally be expected from a Dishonourable Peace, or the Continuance of an Unsuccessful War, plainly pointed out. By a Friend to Trade and Liberty.
Friend to trade and liberty.Date: [1748]- Books
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Trusler's clerical and universal almanack, for the year 1800, by the Rev. Dr. John Trusler. To which is added, The lessons; and an original sermon, written by him, on the gift of sight. Also, a Perpetual Almanack-a French Almanack-a Farming Calendar-Southing of the Moon-a List of new Taxes, Clerical Lists, &c. To be continued yearly, and published November 13.
Trusler, John, 1735-1820.Date: [1799?]- Books
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Essays on the spirit of legislation, in the encouragement of agriculture, population, manufactures, and commerce. Containing observations on the political systems at present pursued in various Countries of Europe, for the Advancement of those essential Interests. Interspersed with various remarks on the practice of Agriculture. Societies of Agriculture. Rewards. Bounties. The Police. Luxury. Industry. Machines. Exportation. Taxes. Inoculation. Marriage. Naturalization, &c. Translated from the original French, which gained the premiums offered by the Society of Berne in Switzerland, for the best compositions on this subject.
Société oeconomique de Berne.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- Books
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Essays on the spirit of legislation, in the encouragement of agriculture, population, manufactures, and commerce. Containing observations on the political systems at present pursued in various countries of Europe, for the advancement of those essential interests. Interspersed with various remarks on the practice of agriculture. Societies of agriculture. Rewards. Bounties. The police. Luxury. Industry. Machines. Exportation. Taxes. Inoculation. Marriage. Naturalization, &c. Translated from the original French, which gained the premiums offered by the Oeconomical Society of Berne, in Switzerland, for the best compositions on this subject.
Date: M,DCC,XCVIII. [1798]- Books
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Essays on the spirit of legislation, in the encouragement of agriculture, population, manufactures and commerce. Containing observations on the political systems at present pursued in various countries of Europe for the advancement of those essential interests. Intersperse with various remarks on the practice of agriculture. Societies of agriculture. Rewards. Bounties. The police. Luxury. Industry. Machines. Exportation. Taxes. Inoculation. Marriage. Naturalization, &c. Translated from the original French, which gained the premiums offered by the Oeconomical Society of Berne, in Switzerland, for the best compositions on this subject.
Date: --M,DCC,XCIX.-- [1799]- Books
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Kearsley's annual eight-penny tax tables, for the year 1795, containing the new duties on Hair Powder, Insurances, Legacies, Receipts, and other Stamps; Stage coaches and pleasure carts Tea, Coffee and Cocoa Nuts, Sweets and Wines. Also an accurate Abstract of the former Taxes on Apprentices Attornies Clerks Auctioneers Alchouse-Keepers Bills of Exchange Brewers Brandy Dealers Bricks and Tiles Candles Coaches Distillers Excise Licences Game Licences Glass Hawkers & Pedlars Houses Horses Medicines Notes of Hand Paper Persumery Post Horses Receipts Servants Slates Spirits Stamps Stones Table Beer Windows Wire, &c. Likewise the new acts for the regulation of franking, The Payment of Soldiers Quarters, And the preventing the Use of False Weights
Kearsley, George, active 1791-1813.Date: [1795]- Books
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Reflections on the expediency of a law for the naturalization of foreign Protestants: in two parts. Part II. Containing important queries relating to commerce, -The Employment of the Poor,-The Landed and National Interest,-Taxes of all Kinds, particularly the Poor Tax,-The real Interest of Tradesmen,-Reformation of Morals,-Constitution both in Church and State, the Duties of Humanity, and the Principles of the Christian Religion. By Josiah Tucker, M. A. Rector of St Stephen's in Bristol, and Chaplain to the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Bristol.
Tucker, Josiah, 1712-1799.Date: M.DCC.LII. [1752]- Books
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A succinct view of the history of mortmain; the statutes relative to charitable uses; and a full exposition of the last Mortmain Act, (9 Geo. II.c.36.) Comprising the Law as it Now Stands Relative to Devises, Bequests, Taxes, Leases, Visitation, and Direction of Public Charities. By A. Highmore, jun. Author of the Digest of the Doctrine of Bail.
Highmore, A. (Anthony), Jr., 1758-1829.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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An inquiry into the reasonableness and consequences of an union with Scotland. Containing a brief deduction of what hath been done, designed, or proposed, in the matter of the Union, during the last Age. A Scheme of an Union, as accommodated to the present Circumstances, of the two Nations. Also States, of the respective Revenues, Debts, Weights, Measures, Taxes and Impositions, and of other Facts of moment. With Observations thereupon. As communicated to Laurence Philips, Esq; near York.
Wednesdays Club in Friday-Street.Date: 1706- Books
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Curious thoughts on the history of man; chiefly abridged or selected from the celebrated works of Lord Kaimes, Lord Monboddo, Dr. Dunbar, and the immortal montesquieu: replete with useful and entertaining instruction, on a variety of important and popular subjects; viz. Population Language Manners Property Love Matrimony Polygamy Marriage-Ceremonies Commerce Government Patriotism Agriculture Peace and War Taxes, Music Gaming Luxury, &c. Designed to promote a spirit of enquiry in the British Youth of both sexes, and to make the Philosophy, as well as history of the human species, familiar to ordinary capacities. By the Rev. John Adams, A. M.
Adams, John, 1750?-1814.Date: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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An appeal to the people, on the contents of the budget, proving the Taxes not only Oppressive, but Ill-Chosen: and submitting to their opinion certain Ways and Means for reducing the National Debt, without Tax or Assessment: being a compleat refutation of Mr. Pitt's plan of effecting the same, by Means of the Sinking Fund; which is herein demonstrated, not only ruinous to the Subject, but fundamentally fallacious, and consequently founded in Error. By one of themselves Audite.
One of Themselves.Date: MDCCLXXXV. [1785]- Books
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A dialogue: or, a familiar discourse, concerning Sir Humphry Mackworth's proposal for payment of the publick debts, for relief of the South-Sea Company, and for Easing the Nation of the Land and Malt Taxes, founded on the Nature and Excellency of the Constitution of the Government of Great-Britain. Between a noble lord, an old member of Parliament, an Eminent Merchant, a Learned Lawyer, a Country Gentleman, a Master Weaver, a notable Broker, all met together Accidentally on Purpose in Exchange-Alley; and occasioned by the Hawkers coming among them with the following Cry, Here is a New Proposal, a New Scheme, for Payment of Publick Debts, for Relief of the South-Sea Company, &c.
M. C.Date: [1720]- Books
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The laws of sewers; or the office and authority of Commissioners of Sewers. Containing, I. Their Power of Enquiry into Annoyances and Defects of Repairs of Sea-Banks and Walls, publick Streams and Rivers, Ditches and Marsh-Grounds. II. The Authority of the Commissioners in making Laws and Ordinances, and imposing Rates or Taxes for repairing the Walls, Banks, and other Defences. III. Of their Power by Law as to Distresses, and decreeing Lands to be sold to levy Charges for Repairs, and inflicting Punishments, by Fine and otherwise. Also The Particular Offices of Bailiffs, Surveyors, Collectors, and other Officers under the Commissioners, and Proceedings of a Court of Sewers, Orders, Warrants, &c. To which are added, the laws relating to Rumney-Marsh, and other marshes and fens.
Date: 1732- Books
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The laws of sewers; or the office and authority of Commissioners of Sewers. Containing, I. Their Power of Enquiry into Annoyances and Defects of Repairs of Sea-Banks and Walls, publick Streams and Rivers, Ditches and Marsh-Grounds. II. The Authority of the Commissioners in making Laws and Ordinances, and imposing Rates or Taxes for repairing the Walls, Banks, and other Defences. III. Of their Power by Law as to Distresses, and decreeing Lands to be sold to levy Charges for Repairs, and inflicting Punishments, by Fine and otherwise. Also The Particular Offices of Bailiffs, Surveyors, Collectors, and other Officers under the Commissioners, and Proceedings of a Court of Sewers, Orders, Warrants, &c. To which are added, the laws relating to Rumney-Marsh, and other marshes and fens.
Date: 1726