Details

Subjects:

Tax administration and procedure -- Great Britain.
Tax administration and procedure.
Great Britain.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Ledgers.
Manuscripts, English.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

English.

Summary:

Accounts of revenue from excise taxes on malt, hops, beer, mead, liquors, chocolate, tea, coffee, cider, paper, silk, calicoes, linens, candles, soap, hides, glass, coaches, wire, and plate, farm rent, "hereditary and temporary excise," etc., from 1674-1677 under the management of Samuel Vincent; from 1677-1683 under management of George Dasherwood; from 1683-1765 under the management of his Majesties commissioners of excise. Also includes an index (p. vi-vii).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (p. 1).
Pagination: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 114 + i (contemporary paper); [viii], 1-173, [174-220]; contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: Contemporary red morocco, tooled in gold. Upper hinge split and leather of upper cover peeling away.
Origin: Written in London, 1765.

Penn Provenance:

Appears in Hutchwell's catalog 9 (1956), no. 442.
Sold by Hutchwell, 1956.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 51 (Ms. English 10).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 219.

Contributor:

Great Britain. Commissioners of Excise.

OCLC:

155962870

Access Restriction:

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