Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The European State Finance Database (ESFD) is an international collaborative research project for the collection of data in European fiscal history. There are no strict geographical or chronological boundaries to the collection, although data for this collection comprise the period between c.1200 to c.1815. The purpose of the ESFD was to establish a significant database of European financial and fiscal records. The data are drawn from the main extant sources of a number of European countries, as the evidence and the state of scholarship permit. The aim was to collect the data made available by scholars, whether drawing upon their published or unpublished archival research, or from other published material. The ESFD project at the University of Leicester serves also to assist scholars working with the data by providing statistical manipulations of data and high quality graphical outputs for publication. The broad aim of the project was to act as a facilitator for a general methodological and statistical advance in the area of European fiscal history, with data capture and the interpretation of data in key publications as the measurable indicators of that advance. The data were originally deposited at the UK Data Archive in SAS transport format and as ASCII files; however, data files in this new edition have been saved as tab delimited files. Furthermore, this new edition features documentation in the form of a single file containing essential data file metadata, source details and notes of interest for particular files.
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The files in this dataset relate to the datafiles held in the Leicester database in the directory /engindic/.. The data were compiled for the purposes of calculating the real increase of taxation over time. File Information g099ei01. Imports of non-sweet wine to England, 1384-1500 g099ei02. Rates of poundage and tunnage, 1350-1547 g099ei03. Indexes of prices of consumables and of builders' wage-rates, 1260-1816 g099in03. English (London) mint output expressed in terms of pounds sterling, 1273-1518 g099in04. English wool prices: area means and annual means, 1209-1500 g099in05. English wool exports, 1280-1547 g099in10. Alien trade in English ports, 1303-36 g099in11. Rates of wool subsidy, 1295-1547 g099in12. English cloth exports, 1349-1547 g099in13. English general merchandise and wine imports and exports, 1400-82 Please note: this study does not include information on named individuals and would therefore not be useful for personal family history research.
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