THE Royal Treatury O F ENGLAND: OR, AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF ALL TAXE S. UNDER What DENOMINATION foever, FROM THE CONQUEST to this prefent YEAR. Collected from the beft Hiftorians, as well Antient as Modern; likewife from many valuable Manufcripts in the COTTON, and feveral other choice Libraries, and fome peculiar Offices in this Kingdom. Containing a confiderable Number of Particulars, not to be found in printed Books. Shewing when the Crown was fupply'd, and Impofitions laid on the People, only by Virtue of the King's Prerogative, at what Times the House of Lords alone has done the fame, and when reduc'd to the Parliamentary Method now Establish'd. Intermixt with fome other remarkable Occurrences. Steve LONDON: Printed for T. TE BB, and J. Wilcox, in Little-Britain. MDCCXXV. Brarglen THE PREFACE. HE Revenues of the Crown being a Contri bution from which very few are exempted, and having, of Confequence, in many Reigns, given Occafion, or at least a Pretence, to the Clamours of the People, are a proper Subject to raise the Curiofity of moft Men; and as yet I know not of any one that has undertaken to fatisfy them fully in this Particular. Mr. Madox, in his Hiftory of the Exchequer, has exerted himself, and met with universal Approbation; informing the World of all the Proceedings and Management in that Ocean, into which all the Rivers of the various Branches of the faid Revenues do continually flow. However, that Work is of another Nature, and not calculated to mention all that every King receiv'd, which is the only Defign of this Small Volume; wherein all the feveral Taxes rais'd upon the Subjects in every Reign are exactly collected, under their feveral Denominations; by which it will appear, what Princes were moft plentifully fupply'd, and what Ufe was made of the Generofity of their Subjects. All that shall be faid in Favour of this Undertaking, is, that it has been collected from |