Roger Schofield

Taxation Under the Early Tudors 1485 - 1547

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Produktbeschreibung

If taxation is the mobilization of economic resources for political ends, it is evident that any study of taxation must probe well beyond the administrative technicalities of its subject. Social, economic, political and administrative history are all part of the investigation. The early Tudor period is especially significant in the history of taxation. This new study examines the taxes granted by parliament to the crown between 1485 and 1547. Under Henry VIII, taxation based on the direct assessment of each individual was revived, having been abandoned as unworkable in the fourteenth century. In the long run, the Tudor experiment failed: direct assessment was abandoned again after decades of complaint about evasion and under-assessment in the mid-seventeenth century, and was not restored until the end of the eighteenth century. But examination of the experiment, and of the timing and causes of its failure, throws light on the changing political limits of the Tudor state. Schofield's research marks an important advance in our understanding not only of the fiscal resources available to the English crown but also of the broader political culture of early Tudor England.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 610g
• ISBN-13: 9780631152316
• ISBN-10: 0631152318
• Artikelnr.: 21199816

Autorenporträt

Roger Schofield is a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, and also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Royal Statistical Society and the British Academy. He is Senior Research Associate of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. He was previously editor of the journal Population Studies and is the co-author of The Population History of England, 1541-1871 (1981) and English Population History from Family Reconstitution (1997).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.

List of Tables and Diagrams.

List of Abbreviations.

1. Introduction.

2. Parliament.

3. The Fifteenth and Tenth.

4. The Evolution of the Directly Assessed Subsidy.

5. The Directly Assessed Subsidies 1513-1547.

6. The Procedure and the Records of the Exchequer 00.

7. The Yields of the Taxes.

8. The Efficiency of the Collection of the Taxes.

9. Taxation and the Political Limits of the Tudor State.

Appendix 1: Taxation Acts and Dates of Payment.

Appendix 2: Chancery Enrolments of Commissions.

Glossary.

Bibliography.

Index

Rezensionen

"A truly remarkable piece of work. The book is authoritative andwill never be bettered, and for this reason it deserves a place inthe library of any institution in which Tudor history is taught orresearched." Journal of Modern History

"The scholarly world is greatly indebted to [Schofield's]decision to publish this important study on tudor taxation underHenry VII and Henry VIII." EH-Net Reviews

"An invaluable guide to the parliamentary taxation of theperiod. All users of the tax records of the earlier Tudors willneed to consult this lucid and informative monograph, an essentialwork of reference and guide to the records themselves." NorthernHistorian

"This study provides a challenge for future scholars to usetaxation as a source material to gain insight into how and why asociety can coalesce to support public benefit over private gain-and, whenit fails, why." Renaissance Quarterly

"A monumental study of abiding value that all those who use theearly Tudor taxation returns will ignore at their peril." LocalPopulations Studies