English Public Finance English Government Finance

First Published in 1964. The following pages are a reprint, with textual corrections, of three separate studies relating to Tudor and early Stuart public finance. In this paper there are some general observations covering the entire field under survey. This book was a reworking of a Ph.D. thesis submitted to Harvard University in 1916 together with three additional chapters covering the reigns Edward VI and Mary.

Chapter I The Fifteenth Century Background; Chapter II The Establishment of the Tudor Dynasty; Chapter III The Development of the New Revenue System Customs and Crown Lands; Chapter IV Obligations and Recognizances: The Work of Empson and Dudley; Chapter V Taxes, Loans and Benevolences, the French Pension; Chapter VI The New Organization of the Financial System; Chapter VII The Value of Henry VII’s Revenues; Chapter VIII Wolsey and National Finance; Chapter IX Cromwell’s Early Administration; Chapter X The Dissolution of the Monasteries; Chapter XI The Revenues and Their Yield, After the Increases Made by Cromwell; Chapter XII The War with France and Scotland, 1542–1547; Chapter XIII Direct Taxes, Loans and the Debasement of the Coinage, 1542–1547; Chapter XIV The Scotch and French Wars, 1547–1550; Chapter XV Northumberland’s Failure, 1550–1553; Chapter XVI Reconstruction Under Mary, 1553–1558;

Fredrick G. Dietz Professor of History, Emeritus, University of Illinois