The Constitutional Experiments of the Commonwealth. a Study of the Years 1649-1660

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The Constitutional Experiments of the Commonwealth. a Study of the Years 1649-1660
Jenks, Edward, 1861-1939
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The cost of the Mint was under £1200 a year, there was a profit of £3,500 on the wine licenses. The vote of the Long Parliament had been carried out, and the judges now received fixed salaries, to the amount of £16,000, instead of fees. But still the expenses of the army and navy were frightfully heavy. The former cost £764,000 a year, the latter £450,000, being, however, once more within the compass of its legitimate revenue, the Customs. If once the strength of the army could have been reduce...d it is clear that Oliver's English budget would have been a triumphant success. As it was it was certainly a tremendous advance on the chaos of the Parliamentary time.
In Scotland and Ireland the result was not so Scotland, good by comparison. The expense of the forces was 1 Journals, Nov. 9, 1662.
120 EXPERIMENTS OF THE COMMONWEALTH, proportionately greater, and the incomings less. But even here the improvement is manifest. In the year 1656 the Customs in Scotland had been £4,600*, in 1657 they rose to £8,800', and in 1658 to £14,700', or an increase of 300 per cent, in two ye^xs.


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