A History of England from the Conclusion of the Great War in 1815, Volume 1Longmans, Green, and Company, 1878 - Great Britain |
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... Debt The Sinking Fund The Revenue • 13 17 · 18 24 25 28 34 35 The Excise 37 The Customs Other Branches of the Revenue The Revenue and the Revolution of 1688 The Growth of the Revenue since the Revolution The Irish Revenue The Suspension ...
... Debt The Sinking Fund The Revenue • 13 17 · 18 24 25 28 34 35 The Excise 37 The Customs Other Branches of the Revenue The Revenue and the Revolution of 1688 The Growth of the Revenue since the Revolution The Irish Revenue The Suspension ...
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... Debts The Church of England Non - Residence in the Church The Bishops • Their Abuse of their Patronage The Country Clergy The Supremacy of the Church The Labouring Classes . Their Wages Their almost General Distress The Poor Laws . The ...
... Debts The Church of England Non - Residence in the Church The Bishops • Their Abuse of their Patronage The Country Clergy The Supremacy of the Church The Labouring Classes . Their Wages Their almost General Distress The Poor Laws . The ...
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... debt , the increase of taxation , all paved the way for the inevitable event . Autocracy stood firm till ruin overtook it , and then surrendered at discretion by summoning the States General . The course which the Revolution took was ...
... debt , the increase of taxation , all paved the way for the inevitable event . Autocracy stood firm till ruin overtook it , and then surrendered at discretion by summoning the States General . The course which the Revolution took was ...
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... rival nations was being rapidly 1 Haydn's Dict . of Dates , sub verb . Population . Colchester , vol . i . P. ' Porter's Progress of the Nation , p . 18 . 273 . CHAP . I. The Na- tional Debt . removed ; HISTORY OF ENGLAND . 27.
... rival nations was being rapidly 1 Haydn's Dict . of Dates , sub verb . Population . Colchester , vol . i . P. ' Porter's Progress of the Nation , p . 18 . 273 . CHAP . I. The Na- tional Debt . removed ; HISTORY OF ENGLAND . 27.
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... debt of Ireland to about 2,250,000l . The entire debt of the United Kingdom only slightly exceeded 239,650,000 . In 1815 , the last year of the war , the capital of the debt of Great Britain amounted to about 834,260,000l .; the capital ...
... debt of Ireland to about 2,250,000l . The entire debt of the United Kingdom only slightly exceeded 239,650,000 . In 1815 , the last year of the war , the capital of the debt of Great Britain amounted to about 834,260,000l .; the capital ...
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