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 The aim was to collect the data made available by scholars, whether drawing upon their published or unpublished archival research, or from other published material.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 derived datafiles held in the Leicester database in the directory /rjb/malet/. . These data on seventeenth century French revenues and expenditure supplied by the Project Director, Professor Richard Bonney, draw upon J-R Malet, Comptes rendus de l'administration des finances du royaume de France, (London, 1789). For a discussion of this source in English, cosult Bonney, R.J.,Jean-Roland Malet: historian of the finances of the French monarchy', French History, 5 (1991), 180-233. File Information g096mm01. Malet's figures for royal expenditure in France, 1600-95 g096mm04. Malet's figures for receipts from the pays d'elections and the pays d'etats, 1600-95 g096mm09. Malet's figures for receipts from the pays d'elections, 1600-1695 g096mm14. Malet's figures for ordinary and extraordinary royal expenditure in France compared with other sources, 1600-95 g096mm15. Malet's figures for receipts from the revenue farms, 1600-95 g096mm20. Malet's figures for other ordinary receipts and deniers extraordinaires, 1600-95 g096mm21. Malet's recapitulation tables, 1600-95 g096mm23. Malet's figures for royal revenues in France, 1600-95 g096mm24. Malet's figures for receipts from the pays d'elections, 1661-95, compared with other sources g096mm25. Malet's figures for receipts from the pays d'etats compared with other sources, 1661-99 g096mm26. Malet's figures for receipts from the revenue farms compared with another source, 1661-99 g096mm27. Malet's figures for ordinary and extraordinary royal revenue in France, compared with another source, 1600-99 g096mm28. Malet's figures for royal expenditure in France, 1600-95 g096mm29. Malet's figures for royal revenues in France, 1610-44 g096mm30. Malet's figures for receipts from the revenue farms compared with rents owed by revenue farmers according to their leases, 1610-45 g096mm31. Malet's figures for receipts from the pays d'elections and from the pays d'etats, 1600-95 g096mm32. Malet's figures for receipts from the pays d'elections compared with tax levied, 1594-1643 g096mm33. Richelieu's reform plan, 1640, compared with Malet's figures for the same year g096mm34. Figures for royal expenditure and revenue in France (total and ordinary) from various sources, 1600-1785 g096mm35. Royal expenditure in France, 1600-1710, from various sources g096mm36. Ordinary revenues of the French monarchy, 1661-99 g096mm37. Total revenues of the French monarchy set against coinage output, 1600-1715 g096mm38. Eleven year centred moving averages of index numbers for total royal revenue in France, 1600-1785 (base index 1600-30) g096mm39. Eleven year centred moving averages of 'real' (ie. deflated) index numbers for total royal revenue in France, 1600-1785 (base index 1600-30) g096mm40. Total royal revenue in France from various sources, 1660-1775, converted into pounds sterling g096mm41. Royal expenditure in France, 1600-1716 g096mm42. Eleven year centred moving averages of index numbers for total royal expenditure in France, 1600-1715 (base index 1600-30) g096mm43. Eleven year centred moving averages of 'real' (ie. deflated) index numbers for total royal expenditure in France, 1600-1715 (base index 1600-30) g096mm44. Categories of ordinary revenue in France, 1600-95 g096mm45. Malet's figures for ordinary and extraordinary royal revenue in France, compared with another source, 1600-99 (expressed in metric tonnes of silver) g096mm46.* French royal expenditure, 1600-1785, expressed in metric tonnes of fine silver 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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