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 The aim was to collect the data made available by scholars, whether drawing upon their published or unpublished archival research, or from other published material.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 /orm/.. Taken from miscellaneous published and unpublished data, they relate to English revenues, especially those from indirect taxation. File Information g131ed01. Revenue from the customs and subsidies on wool exports from England, 1400-85 g131ed02. Revenue from the customs duties on cloth exports from England, 1400-85 g131ed03. Revenue from tunnage and poundage, 1399-1482 g131ed04. Revenue from the petty custom, 1400-82 g131ed05. Revenue from the butlerage (new custom on wine), 1322-1485 g131ed06. Revenue from the customs and subsidies on overseas trade, 1275-1399 g131ed07. Revenues from the customs on overseas trade, 1304-1485 g131ed08. Lay taxes on movable property, 1207-1485 g131ed09. Direct taxes in wool (1339, 1341, 1342) and on agricultural produce (1340) g131ed10. Lay poll taxes, 1377-81 g131ed11. Lay income taxes, 1404-74 g131ed12. Taxes on Knights' Fees and Households, 1428 g131ed13. Poll taxes on aliens, 1440-85 g131ed14. Benevolences, 1475 and 1482 g131ed15. Direct taxes on clerical incomes, 1272-1485 g131ed16. Clerical taxes ordered by the Pope and paid to the English crown, 1227-1334 g131ed17. Clerical poll taxes, 1377-1450 g131ed18. Feudal aids, 1205-1401 g131ed19. Scutages, 1200-1306 g131ed20. Selected tallages levied on the royal demesne and towns, 1168-1312 g131ed21. Tallages levied on the Jews in England, 1221-87 g131ed22. Clerical dona, 1203-1333 g131ed23. English exchequer receipt roll totals, 1377-1485 g131ed24. English exchequer `genuine' loans, 1377-1485 g131ed25. English exchequer receipt roll totals, 1327-77 g131ed26. English exchequer new loans, 1350-77 g131ed27. Ordinary revenue of the English crown, 1322-40 (notional gross totals) g131ed28. Extraordinary revenue of the English crown, 1327-43 g131ed29. Total French treasury receipts and notional total English revenue, 1322-45 (in kilos of fine silver) g131ed30. Notional receipts and total notional revenue of the English crown, 1370-1410 g131ed31. Notional receipts and total notional revenue of the English crown, 1462-85 g131ed32. Danegeld and the total money supply in England, expressed in pounds sterling of account and in kilos of fine silver, 991-1018 g131ed33. Revenues of the English crown in 1129-30 (in pounds sterling of account) g131ed34. Debts from earlier years accounted for in the English exchequer in 1129-30 (in pounds sterling of account) g131ed35. Annual average value of fines imposed for the purchase of wardships and marriages of heirs of tenants-in-chief, 1154-1327 g131ed36. Net receipts from royal management of episcopal temporalities, 1166-1307 g131ed37. Net receipts from crown estates under Henry III g131ed38. Net receipts from ordinary revenue accounted for at the Exchequer, 1241-1245 g131ed39. Seignorage and mintage on silver and gold at the English mints, 1279-1377 g131ed40. The value of general merchandise imported and exported by denizen merchants and subject to poundage, 1350-1399 g131ed41. The value of merchandise imported and exported by aliens and subject to poundage, 1350-1399 g131ed42. The value of merchandise imported and exported by aliens subject to the petty custom, 1350-1399 and revenue from the petty custom g131ed43. Wine imports to England subject to taxation and revenue from tunnage, 1350-1399 g131ed44. Broadcloths, worsteds and kerseys exported from England, 1349-1399, subject to the cloth customs of 1303 and 1347 and to poundage g131ed45. Multipliers to convert values of cloth to revenue from poundage on cloth (in pounds sterling), 1350-99 g131ed46. Net receipts from feudal aids, scutages and associated fines and ecclesiastical dona, 1199-1272 g131em01. Notional revenue from customs and subsidies on various commodities exported from England, 1400-85 g131em02. Income from the ancient custom and the new custom on wool and woolfells and from the wool subsidy, 1280-1547 g131em03. Revenue from the customs on English cloth imports and exports, 1303-1547 g131em04. Revenue to the crown from the customs and subsidies on English wool and cloth, 1280-1547 g131em05. Revenue to the English crown from the new custom on general merchandise, 1303-1482 g131em06. Revenue to the crown from tunnage and poundage, 1400-1500 g131em07. The volume of trade in English wool and cloth, 1280-1547 g131em08. The relative value of English wool and cloth exports, 1280-1500 g131em09. Revenues to the English crown from customs and subsidies, 1280-1547 g131em10. Revenue to English crown from direct taxation of the laity, 1207-1485 g131em11. Revenue to English crown from direct taxation of the clergy, 1227-1485 g131em12. Net revenue to English crown from direct taxation, 1168-1485 g131em13. Revenue to English crown from direct and indirect taxation, 1207-1547 g131em14. Net receipts to English crown from its feudal prerogatives, 1168-1401 g131em17. Revenues to the English crown from direct and indirect taxation, 1168-1547 g131em18. Total revenue to the English crown from taxation and total Exchequer receipts and loans, 1327-1485 g131em19. Revised income from cloth customs, 1349-1399 as percentage of total value of exported cloth g131em20. Potential revenue to the crown from tunnage and poundage, 1350-1399 g131em21. Relative values of direct and indirect taxation, 1350-99 g131em22. Relative value of indirect taxation as percentage of receipt roll totals, 1350-99 g131em23.* Relative burden of direct and indirect taxation in England, 1290-1460 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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