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An official history of the Treasury.
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A late twelfth century essay concerning all that went on at the bi-yearly meetings of the medieval exchequer officials, and branches out into a description of all the sources of revenue of the English crown, and of the methods of collecting them. From the Medieval Sourcebook.
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Entry from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Brittanica. Courtesy of the LoveToKnow Corporation.
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The Inland Revenue's history of Income Tax.
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This research guide to official records of medieval and early-modern taxation includes a history of lay and clerical taxes in England and Wales.
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A database of the assessment for taxation carried out on the orders of Pope Nicholas IV in 1291-1292. For nearly 250 years virtually all ecclesiastical taxation of England and Wales was based on this extremely thorough and detailed assessment.