A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions
Shewing the nature and measures of crown-lands, assessements, customs, poll-moneys, lotteries, benevolence, penalties, monopolies, offices, tythes, raising of coins, harth-money, excize, &c.; 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, &c.; the same being frequently applied to the present state and affairs of Ireland.
Sir William Petty