Record revealed
Request for compensation for the Boston Tea Party
On 16 December 1773, 340 chests of tea were thrown into Boston harbour by protesting colonists. This letter from the East India Company requests reimbursement.
Series
Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Particulars of Account of Land and Assessed Taxes
Catalogue reference: E 182
What's it about?
E 182
This series is made up of the particulars of accounts for three groups of taxes administered centrally by the Board of Taxes and locally by county commissioners: the Land Tax, from 1692; the assessed taxes, a group of taxes assessed upon the...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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E 182
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Title (The name of the record)
- Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Particulars of Account of Land and Assessed Taxes
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Date (When the record was created)
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1689-1830
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series is made up of the particulars of accounts for three groups of taxes administered centrally by the Board of Taxes and locally by county commissioners: the Land Tax, from 1692; the assessed taxes, a group of taxes assessed upon the possession or occupation of certain kinds of property, beginning with the window tax in 1696; and the income tax, which began under Pitt in 1799 and from 1803 to 1816 is more properly known as the property and income tax.
The lack of individual assessments among the surviving documents in this series limits their value for genealogical and biographical research. Large numbers of seals, of commissioners, justices of the peace and so on, have survived in varying states of preservation.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The documents are stored in bags, arranged alphabetically by county and in chronological order.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Some duplicate assessments for 1692 are in SP 33
The original accounts are in E 181
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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1359 bundles and rolls
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Taxation
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- The income tax records in this series are a useful source of statistics for the distribution of wealth and income in the period they cover: see M J Jubb, 'Income, series and the taxman: a note on the distribution of wealth in nineteenth-century Britain', Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, lx (1987), pp 118-24 The assessed taxes documentation has been little used, but see A D M Phillips and J R Walton, 'The distribution of personal wealth in English towns in the mid-nineteenth century', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2nd series, lxiv (1975), pp 35-48
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6627/
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