English public revenue, 1688-1696

Manuscript volume containing an account of the public revenue of England, Nov 1688-Sep 1691, with an extension of the statement to 1696 in the same hand, entitled 'A brief state of the incomes and issues of their Majesties public revenue...'.

The Exchequer was responsible for receiving and dispersing the public revenue.

Single item.

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Part of the Goldsmith's Library of Economic Literature, initially collected by Herbert Somerton Foxwell and presented by the Goldsmith's Company to the University of London in 1903.

Collection level description.

Manuscript quarto. Bound in half calf by [George] Bretherton, 1848.

Compiled by Sarah Smith as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.

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The manuscript was part of the library of John Fraunceis Gwyn, sold in 1846. It later formed part of the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1st Baronet (1792-1872) as MS 12154, and was bought by Herbert Somerton Foxwell at the Sotheby's sale, 10 Jun 1896.

Other accounts of the English public revenue for this period may be found at University of London MSS 53, 58, 75, 76.