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1. The History of the various Taxes, and Impositions deletion unclear /deletion From the Norman Invasion to the Revolution, With a short Introduction explaining Some Antient terms made use of in underline the business of the Revenue /underline

underline Introduction /underline The following Work would be attended with much more utility as well entertainment, were it possible to premise any tolerable Account of the Crown Demesnes, and of the method practiced in raising Taxes for the support of Government during the mild Reigns of the Saxon Line, and the short though turbulent period of the Danish Invasion, but an almost total silence Reigns in our Antient Authors upon this Subject; many pages are filled with the wise Regulations of Alfred and Canute; but in these branches, History and Tradition fail us.

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