Ginter focuses on the years 1780 to 1832, a period for which many land tax records survive and precisely when modern forms of political organization began to emerge and when industrialization and enclosure are thought to have altered the fabric of society and the economy. Through an examination of more than 5,000 parishes in fifteen historical counties -- approximately one-third of England -- he shows that inequalities in the burden of national taxation were far greater than anyone has estimated. Having researched both local and national taxation procedures, he reveals that, on the eve of the nineteenth-century "Revolution in Government," the tenantry and yeomanry were administratively far more independent of parliamentary statute and of their local gentry and magistracy than has previously been suggested. Drawing on evidence from the three ridings of Yorkshire, he discloses other problems associated with the land tax duplicates. While Ginter argues that the land tax duplicates are wholly inadequate for the study of the fortunes of the small yeoman and that the literature on this subject must be fundamentally reconsidered, he reveals a method which can reliably exploit the land tax duplicates as a systemic documentation. He contends that the full potential for studies based centrally on the land tax has scarcely begun to be explored.
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Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- List of Tables 10
- List of Maps 16
- List of Appendices 20
- Abbreviations 25
- Preface 26
- Illustrations 28
- PART ONE: INTRODUCTION 34
- 1 The Role of the Land Tax in Historical Analysis 36
- PART TWO: INTERPRETING THE STRUCTURE OF THE LAND TAX DUPLICATES 44
- 2 Minor Problems 46
- 3 Major Problems 63
- 4 Roman Catholic Double Assessment 85
- 5 Converting Tax Values to Acres 109
- PART THREE: THE VALUATIONAL BASIS OF THE LAND TAX WITHIN TOWNSHIPS 138
- 6 The Mechanisms and Terminology of Rating 140
- 7 The Incidence and Level of Revaluation 148
- 8 The Impact of Redemption 156
- 9 The Equitability of Assessments within Townships 166
- 10 The Explanation of Inequalities 172
- PART FOUR: THE REGIONAL AND NATIONAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE LAND TAX BURDEN 186
- 11 The National Distribution of the Land Tax Burden: The Traditional Evidence 188
- 12 Valuational Rent and Local Poundage Rates in the North Riding of Yorkshire c. 1830 193
- 13 A Method for Estimating Inequalities in the Regional and National Distribution of the Land Tax: Finding a Maximum Valuation Series 204
- 14 Testing the Maximum Series for Comparability: Spatial Distribution Patterns in the North, East, and West Ridings of Yorkshire 234
- 15 The National Distribution of the Land Tax Burden: New Estimates for 1815 281
- PART FIVE: CONCLUSIONS 296
- 16 A New Look at the Historiography of Land Tax Studies 298
- PART SIX: MAPS 326
- PART SEVEN: APPENDICES 368
- Notes 686
- Bibliography 726
- Index 738
- A 738
- B 739
- C 739
- D 739
- E 739
- F 740
- G 740
- H 740
- I 740
- J 740
- K 740
- L 740
- M 741
- N 741
- O 741
- P 741
- Q 742
- R 742
- S 743
- T 743
- U 744
- V 744
- W 744
- Y 744
