King Charles I's financial estimates for 1641-1642

 

Charles I's financial estimates for 1641-42

In 1985, the Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research (Volume 58 (1985), Pp.109-120) carried an article by Conrad Russell which reproduced from Edward Nicholas's papers in the British Library (Egerton Ms.2541 fols.266-271) estimates for Charles I's anticipated income in the following financial year 1642-43. It has since been reprinted in Russell's collection of essays, Unrevolutionary England, 1603-1642 ((1990), Pp.165-176). He was quite right to think of it as important and interesting in itself. What he apparently overlooked was the fact that this document had already been published by W.R.Scott in 1911. (See W.R.Scott, The Constitution and Finance of English, Scottish and Irish Joint-Stock Companies to 1720. Volume III, Pp.528-529(Cambridge University Press. 1911))

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