A Treatise of Taxes & Contributions
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A Treatise of Taxes & Contributions, shewing the Nature and
Measures of Crown Lands, Assessments, Customs, Poll-Money,
Lotteries, Benevolence, Penalties, Monopolies, Offices, Tythes,
Raising of Coins, Harth-Money, Excize, etc. 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, etc.

The Same being frequently applied to the present State and
Affairs of Ireland.

London, Printed for N. Brooke, at the Angel in Cornhill, 1662.

by William Petty

1662

The Preface
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15