English public revenue, 1688-1702

Manuscript volume containing an account of the public revenue of England, Nov 1688-Mar 1702, with an abstract for the whole period.

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 folio. Bound in morocco, with a panelled design in gold on the covers.

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

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The manuscript was part of the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1st Baronet (1792-1872) as MS 9048. It was bought by Herbert Somerton Foxwell at the Phillipps sale, Sotheby's, on 19 Jun 1893.

Other accounts of the English public revenue for this period may be found at University of London MSS 53, 54, 58, 76.