History of Taxation and Taxes in England Volumes 1-4 / Edition 1

by Stephen Dowell

Overview

First published in 1965. This is four volumes in one text on Taxes and Taxation from the earliest times to the present day. The first volume looks at the history of taxation and tax in England, then Volume II the taxation period from the Civil War to the present day, volume II concerns itself with direct taxes and stamp duties; and finally Volume IV concludes with taxes on articles of consumption.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780714613031
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/15/1965
Series:	Reprints of Economic Classics Series
Edition description:	REVISED
Pages:	1705
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 3.70(d)

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CHAPTER II. THE REVENUE FROM THE INCIDENTS AND CASUALTIES OF THE FEUDAL TENURES. Gradual establishment of the feudal system in England. Military service by the knight's fee. The feudal aids. Incidents and casualties of the feudal system. Other items of reyenue under the Norman kings and their successors. After the Norman Conquest, when, in process of time, the continental feudal system had become established V iii England, the king derived a considerable revenue from the incidents and casualties of the feudal tenures, a source of income which, sometimes in abundant, sometimes in diminished yield, continued to flow for five centuries and a half, and was only dried up when the court of wards and liveries, created subsequently by Henry VIII. for the supervision of this revenue, was abolished practically at the outbreak of the Civil War. This system was established in England gradually, and not so much by the will of the Conqueror as by the force of circumstances. William had seen, in France, the difficulties of government involved in a system in which the king was primus inter pares, and for that reason, as well as in view of the hereditary claim he advanced, was desirous to govern the kingdom as it had been governed under previous kings. When, therefore, after the battle of Senlac he confis- cated the lands of all who had fought for Harold, and portioned out some of them to the participators in the conquest and allowed others to be redeemed at a price by former owners willing to submit to him, he did not introduce, in regard to these lands, any distinct alteration in tenure. Nevertheless, it is clear that such an alteration in the ownership of lands must have involved, if only inregard to the lands held by the Normans, some approximation in tenure to that with whi...

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