1,388 results
- Books
- Online
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
- Online
Proposals for a very easie tax To Raise between Two and Three Millions of Money, To begin to pay The Publick Debts, and discharge the Nation, not only from all those Taxes that these Two late Expensive Wars have loaded Us with, but from all other Taxes that are paid to Her Majesty, in a few Years; time with other happy Consequences that will accrue to the Kingdom in general, if it should be laid on and continu'd. per annum, (if not a greater sum) in the room of the land-tax, ... Also proposals for the further encouraging the woollen-manufactures of this kingdom in foreign parts. By Ephraim Parker.
Parker, Ephraim.Date: 1713- Books
- Online
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
- Online
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
- Online
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
- Online
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
- Online
Albion restituta: or, a plan for a periodical abolition of all taxes, raised by the means of collectors. Presented to government in the year 1793. To be fully accomplished, with a very moderate and proportioned Contribution, by a Million of Proprietors, for one Time only, which, at the End, would give to the Contributions, their Successors, and to the whole Nation, Eighty per Cent. and more, for every, by the Extinction of the said Taxes, as is fully proved in Page 37. Also, The Addition of a plan to pay the Interest of extraordinary Subsidies, without renewing any Kind of Taxes. Together With a striking criterium upon the Return made to the Author, in Consideration of that Part of his Plan, adopted in the last Session of the Old Parliament.
Graglia, G. A. (Giuseppe A).Date: 1796- Books
- Online
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
- Online
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
- Online
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
- Online
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
- Online
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
- Online
Observations on the nature of civil liberty, the principles of government, and the justice and policy of the war with America. To which is added an appendix, containing a state of the national debt, an Estimate of the Money drawn from the Public by the Taxes, and an Account of the National Income and Expenditure since the last War. By Richard Price, D.D. F.R.S.
Price, Richard, 1723-1791.Date: M.DCC.LXXVI. [1776]- Books
- Online
Observations on the nature of civil liberty, the principles of government, and the justice and policy of the war with America. To which is added, an appendix, containing, a state of the national debt, An Estimate of the Money drawn from the Public by the Taxes, and An Account of the National Income and Expenditure since the last War. By Richard Price, D.D. F.R.S.
Price, Richard, 1723-1791.Date: M.DCC.LXXVI. [1776]- Books
- Online
Observations on the nature of civil liberty, and the principles of government, from Dr. Price's much esteemed and popular essay, published anno 1776. With the Declaration of principles, and regulations of the Friends of Liberty, United for Promoting Constitutional Information, The only Means by which A Reduction of Taxes, and the Enormous Price of Provisions can be Obtained; Or Unjust and Unnecessary Wars Prevented.
Price, Richard, 1723-1791.Date: 1795?]- Books
- Online
An enquiry into the legality and expediency of increasing the Royal Navy by subscriptions for building County Ships. Being the correspondence on that subject between Arthur Young & Capel Lofft, Esqrs. with a list of the subscribers to the Suffolk man of War. to which are added, Observations on the State of the Taxes and Resources of the Kingdom on the Conclusion of the Peace.
Young, Arthur, 1741-1820.Date: [1783]- Books
- Online
Observations on the nature of civil liberty, the principles of government, and the justice and policy of the war with America. To which is added an appendix, Containing a State of the National Debt, an Estimate of the Money drawn from the Public by the Taxes, and an Account of the National Income and Expenditure since the last War. by Richard Price, D.D. F.R.S.
Price, Richard, 1723-1791.Date: M.DCC.LXXVI. [1776]- Books
- Online
An essay on trade and commerce: Containing observations on taxes, As they are supposed to affect The Price of Labour in our Manufactories: together with Some interesting Reflections on the Importance of our trade to America. To which is added the Out-Lines, or Sketch, of a Scheme For the maintenance and employment of the poor, The Prevention of Vagrancy, and Decrease of the poor's rates. Humbly addressed to the Legislature of the Kingdom, By the Author of Considerations on Taxes, &c.
Cunningham, J.Date: MDCCLXX. [1770]- Books
- Online
The history of the surprizing rise and sudden fall of Masaniello, The Fisherman of Naples, Who, in the Space of Four Days raised 150,000 People in Arms; and in Two Days more made himself Governor, or King of Naples. Containing Very exact and impartial Accounts of the whole Tumults and Insurrections that happened there in the Month of July 1647, by Reason of the Tax laid upon Fruit, and other burthensome Taxes.
Date: 1747- Books
- Online
The history of the surprizing rise and sudden fall of Masaniello, the fisherman of Naples, who in the space of four days raised 150,000 people in arms; and in Two Days more made himself Governor, or King of Naples. Containing very exact and impartial accounts of the whole tumults and insurrections that happened there in the Month of July 1647. by Reason of the Tax laid upon Fruit, and other burthensome Taxes.
Date: [1748?]- Books
- Online
Observations on the nature of civil liberty, the principles of government, and the justice and policy of the war with America. To which is added, an appendix and postscript, containing, a state of the national debt, An Estimate of the Money drawn from the Public by the Taxes, and An Account of the National Income and Expenditure since the last War. By Richard Price, D.D. F.R.S.
Price, Richard, 1723-1791.Date: M.DCC.LXXVI. [1776]- Books
- Online
Observations on the nature of civil liberty, the principles of government, and the justice and policy of the war with America. To which are added an appendix and postscript, Containing a State of the National Debt, an Estimate of the Money drawn from the Public by the Taxes, and an Account of the National Income and Expenditure since the last War. By Richard Price, D.D. F.R.S.
Price, Richard, 1723-1791.Date: M.DCC.LXXVI. [1776]- Books
- Online
Observations on the nature of civil liberty, the principles of government, and the justice and policy of the war with America. To which are added an appendix and postcript, containing a state of the national debt, an Estimate of the Money drawn from the Public by the Taxes, and an Account of the National Income and Expenditure since the last War. By Richard Price, D.D. F.R.S.
Price, Richard, 1723-1791.Date: M.DCC.LXXV [1776]- Books
- Online
Fair payment no spunge: or, some considerations on the Unreasonableness of Refusing to Receive back Money Lent on Publick Securities. And the Necessity of Setting the Nation Free from the Insupportable Burthen of Debt and Taxes. With a View of the Great Advantage and Benefit which will arise to Trade and to the Landed Interest, as well as to the Poor, by having these Heavy Grievances taken off.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: [1717]- Books
- Online
Observations on the nature of civil liberty, the principles of government, and the justice and policy of the war with America. To which are added, an appendix and postscript, containing a state of the national debt, an Estimate of the Money drawn from the Public by the Taxes, and an Account of the National Income and Expenditure since the last War. By Richard Price, D. D. F. R. S.
Price, Richard, 1723-1791.Date: M,DCC,LXXVI. [1776]