Excerpt from English Government Finance, 1485 1558 In the preparation of this essay, the attempt has been made to collect, and to study carefully all the existing revenue ac counts Of the English government from 1485 to 1558, together with all other documents which would serve to make clear the government's policy and purposes. Many classes of docu ments in the Public Record Office hitherto entirely unused were investigated. It is hoped that by this research something may have been done to make a beginning of a history of Tudor Finances, and some small contribution made to the larger work of a general history of the finances of the English State. This study was undertaken at the suggestion of Professor Edwin F. Gay when he was still at Harvard University, and to his stimulus and friendly counsel whatever merit it may have, is due. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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.