STUART FINANCE

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A Letter from a Gentleman in the Country to his Friend in the City: Touching Sir William Petty's Posthumous Treatise; First edition of this detailed exploration of Stuart wealth and taxation, a response to the analysis of Sir William Petty (1623-1687).Petty's Verbum Sapienti assesses the wealth of the Stuart nation and its capacity to pay taxes, thus developing among the earliest assessments of national income and wealth. The Verbum Sapienti was first published in the Political Anatomy of Ireland (1691), a collection of Petty's manuscript papers. His internal dating suggests that it was written in 1665, in the midst of his second long stay in Ireland. Petty owned some 18,000 acres in five Irish counties and served as MP for Inistioge from 1661 to 1666.

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