Excise Taxation and the Origins of Public Debt

This book offers a wholesale reinterpretation of both the introduction of excise taxation in Great Britain in the 1640s and the genesis of the Financial Revolution of the 1690s. By analysing hitherto unpublished manuscript and print sources, D''Maris Coffman resolves divergent accounts of these constitutionally problematic but fiscally significant new taxes. Parliament''s success at imposing on a ...