The burden of taxation on sixteenth-century London

Historical Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 599-627

  Archer, Ian W ^a  

^a KEBLE COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84922843152     PISSN: 0018246X     EISSN: 14695103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0018246X01001935     Document Type: Article

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2. idem, ‘Taxation and the political limits of the Tudor state’, in C. Cross, D. Loades, and J. J. Scarisbrick, eds., Law and government under the Tudors (Cambridge, 1988), pp. 227–255
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16. See also J. McGurk, The Elizabethan conquest of Ireland: the 1590s crisis (Manchester, 1997).
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18. E. Freshfield, ed., The vestry minute books of the parish of St Bartholomew Exchange, 1567–1676 (London, 1890), passim.
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32. JCC 20, fos. 436–7v, 440v-2, 444–6
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34. CLRO, JCC 19, fo. 12
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39. Braddick, Parliamentary taxation, pp. 23–63
40. Schofield, ‘Parliamentary lay taxation’, ch. 3.
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42. idem, ‘Political limits’, pp. 231–236
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44. idem, Tudor taxation records: a guide for users (London, 1994), pp. 12, 21, 30–1
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49. Schofield, ‘Parliamentary lay taxation’, pp. 403–412.
50. ‘Parliamentary lay taxation’., pp. 263–269
51. See also Tudor subsidy assessment rolls, pp. xlvi-li.