Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The European State Finance Database (ESFD) is an international collaborative research project for the collection of data in European fiscal history. There are no strict geographical or chronological boundaries to the collection, although data for this collection comprise the period between c.1200 to c.1815. The purpose of the ESFD was to establish a significant database of European financial and fiscal records. The data are drawn from the main extant sources of a number of European countries, as the evidence and the state of scholarship permit. The aim was to collect the data made available by scholars, whether drawing upon their published or unpublished archival research, or from other published material. The ESFD project at the University of Leicester serves also to assist scholars working with the data by providing statistical manipulations of data and high quality graphical outputs for publication. The broad aim of the project was to act as a facilitator for a general methodological and statistical advance in the area of European fiscal history, with data capture and the interpretation of data in key publications as the measurable indicators of that advance. The data were originally deposited at the UK Data Archive in SAS transport format and as ASCII files; however, data files in this new edition have been saved as tab delimited files. Furthermore, this new edition features documentation in the form of a single file containing essential data file metadata, source details and notes of interest for particular files. Main Topics: The files in this dataset relate to the datafiles held in the Leicester database in the directory /korner/.. File Information g123eud1.* Total expenditure of Prussia, Sweden, Denmark and Russia, 1720-1808, expressed in metric tonnes of silver Please note: this study does not include information on named individuals and would therefore not be useful for personal family history research.

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The European State Finance Database (ESFD) is an international collaborative research project for the collection of data in European fiscal history. There are no strict geographical or chronological boundaries to the collection, although data for this collection comprise the period between c.1200 to c.1815. The purpose of the ESFD was to establish a significant database of European financial and fiscal records. The data are drawn from the main extant sources of a number of European countries, as the evidence and the state of scholarship permit. The aim was to collect the data made available by scholars, whether drawing upon their published or unpublished archival research, or from other published material. The ESFD project at the University of Leicester serves also to assist scholars working with the data by providing statistical manipulations of data and high quality graphical outputs for publication. The broad aim of the project was to act as a facilitator for a general methodological and statistical advance in the area of European fiscal history, with data capture and the interpretation of data in key publications as the measurable indicators of that advance. The data were originally deposited at the UK Data Archive in SAS transport format and as ASCII files; however, data files in this new edition have been saved as tab delimited files. Furthermore, this new edition features documentation in the form of a single file containing essential data file metadata, source details and notes of interest for particular files. Main Topics:

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The European State Finance Database (ESFD) is an international collaborative research project for the collection of data in European fiscal history. There are no strict geographical or chronological boundaries to the collection, although data for this collection comprise the period between c.1200 to c.1815. The purpose of the ESFD was to establish a significant database of European financial and fiscal records. The data are drawn from the main extant sources of a number of European countries, as the evidence and the state of scholarship permit. The aim was to collect the data made available by scholars, whether drawing upon their published or unpublished archival research, or from other published material. The ESFD project at the University of Leicester serves also to assist scholars working with the data by providing statistical manipulations of data and high quality graphical outputs for publication. The broad aim of the project was to act as a facilitator for a general methodological and statistical advance in the area of European fiscal history, with data capture and the interpretation of data in key publications as the measurable indicators of that advance. The data were originally deposited at the UK Data Archive in SAS transport format and as ASCII files; however, data files in this new edition have been saved as tab delimited files. Furthermore, this new edition features documentation in the form of a single file containing essential data file metadata, source details and notes of interest for particular files. Main Topics: The files in this dataset relate to the datafiles held in the Leicester database in the directory /krug/.. File Information g115dd01. Danish royal revenues, 1588-1628 g115dd02. Danish royal expenditure, 1588-1628 g115dd19. Revenue from the Sound toll, 1588-1628 g115dm01. Danish royal revenue and expenditure excluding loans and surplus, 1588-1628 Please note: this study does not include information on named individuals and would therefore not be useful for personal family history research.

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The European State Finance Database (ESFD) is an international collaborative research project for the collection of data in European fiscal history. There are no strict geographical or chronological boundaries to the collection, although data for this collection comprise the period between c.1200 to c.1815. The purpose of the ESFD was to establish a significant database of European financial and fiscal records. The data are drawn from the main extant sources of a number of European countries, as the evidence and the state of scholarship permit. The aim was to collect the data made available by scholars, whether drawing upon their published or unpublished archival research, or from other published material. The ESFD project at the University of Leicester serves also to assist scholars working with the data by providing statistical manipulations of data and high quality graphical outputs for publication. The broad aim of the project was to act as a facilitator for a general methodological and statistical advance in the area of European fiscal history, with data capture and the interpretation of data in key publications as the measurable indicators of that advance. The data were originally deposited at the UK Data Archive in SAS transport format and as ASCII files; however, data files in this new edition have been saved as tab delimited files. Furthermore, this new edition features documentation in the form of a single file containing essential data file metadata, source details and notes of interest for particular files. Main Topics: The files in this dataset relate to the datafiles held in the Leicester database in the directory /armies/.. The interest of this data in the longer term is to build up a run of statistics for the period of the so-called military revolution'. This was a decisive factor in the increase of state expenditure on war and the creation of the so-calledfiscal military state'. It may also be possible to build up, in the longer term, calculations of a relative state efficiency (expenditure in terms of army size), relative state mobilization (army size in terms of overall population levels) and an index of state expenditure in real terms (via the cost of payment of armies). File Information g101arm1.* Sizes of armies of European states at various dates between 1660 and 1861 Please note: this study does not include information on named individuals and would therefore not be useful for personal family history research. No sampling (total universe)

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The European State Finance Database (ESFD) is an international collaborative research project for the collection of data in European fiscal history. There are no strict geographical or chronological boundaries to the collection, although data for this collection comprise the period between c.1200 to c.1815. The purpose of the ESFD was to establish a significant database of European financial and fiscal records. The data are drawn from the main extant sources of a number of European countries, as the evidence and the state of scholarship permit. The aim was to collect the data made available by scholars, whether drawing upon their published or unpublished archival research, or from other published material. The ESFD project at the University of Leicester serves also to assist scholars working with the data by providing statistical manipulations of data and high quality graphical outputs for publication. The broad aim of the project was to act as a facilitator for a general methodological and statistical advance in the area of European fiscal history, with data capture and the interpretation of data in key publications as the measurable indicators of that advance. The data were originally deposited at the UK Data Archive in SAS transport format and as ASCII files; however, data files in this new edition have been saved as tab delimited files. Furthermore, this new edition features documentation in the form of a single file containing essential data file metadata, source details and notes of interest for particular files. Main Topics: The files in this dataset relate to the datafiles held in the Leicester database in the directory /engindic/.. The data were compiled for the purposes of calculating the real increase of taxation over time. File Information g099ei01. Imports of non-sweet wine to England, 1384-1500 g099ei02. Rates of poundage and tunnage, 1350-1547 g099ei03. Indexes of prices of consumables and of builders' wage-rates, 1260-1816 g099in03. English (London) mint output expressed in terms of pounds sterling, 1273-1518 g099in04. English wool prices: area means and annual means, 1209-1500 g099in05. English wool exports, 1280-1547 g099in10. Alien trade in English ports, 1303-36 g099in11. Rates of wool subsidy, 1295-1547 g099in12. English cloth exports, 1349-1547 g099in13. English general merchandise and wine imports and exports, 1400-82 Please note: this study does not include information on named individuals and would therefore not be useful for personal family history research.

DOI Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The European State Finance Database (ESFD) is an international collaborative research project for the collection of data in European fiscal history. There are no strict geographical or chronological boundaries to the collection, although data for this collection comprise the period between c.1200 to c.1815. The purpose of the ESFD was to establish a significant database of European financial and fiscal records. The data are drawn from the main extant sources of a number of European countries, as the evidence and the state of scholarship permit. The aim was to collect the data made available by scholars, whether drawing upon their published or unpublished archival research, or from other published material. The ESFD project at the University of Leicester serves also to assist scholars working with the data by providing statistical manipulations of data and high quality graphical outputs for publication. The broad aim of the project was to act as a facilitator for a general methodological and statistical advance in the area of European fiscal history, with data capture and the interpretation of data in key publications as the measurable indicators of that advance. The data were originally deposited at the UK Data Archive in SAS transport format and as ASCII files; however, data files in this new edition have been saved as tab delimited files. Furthermore, this new edition features documentation in the form of a single file containing essential data file metadata, source details and notes of interest for particular files. Main Topics: The files in this dataset relate to the datafiles held in the Leicester database in the directory /frindic/.. The data were compiled for the purpose of calculating real increases in taxation over time. File Information g098fin1. European exchange rates, 1600-1775: Paris livres tournois to 100 pounds sterling g098ind1. The value of the livre tournois in grams of fine silver, 1513-1785 g098ind2. French mint output expressed in terms of livres tournois, 1308-1791 g098ind7. Paris wheat prices, harvest years, 1521-1698 g098ind8. French wheat prices, calendar years, 1701-1817 g098ind9. Wheat prices at Paris, calendar years, 1431-1788 Please note: this study does not include information on named individuals and would therefore not be useful for personal family history research. No sampling (total universe) Compilation or synthesis of existing material

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The European State Finance Database (ESFD) is an international collaborative research project for the collection of data in European fiscal history. There are no strict geographical or chronological boundaries to the collection, although data for this collection comprise the period between c.1200 to c.1815. The purpose of the ESFD was to establish a significant database of European financial and fiscal records. The data are drawn from the main extant sources of a number of European countries, as the evidence and the state of scholarship permit. The aim was to collect the data made available by scholars, whether drawing upon their published or unpublished archival research, or from other published material. The ESFD project at the University of Leicester serves also to assist scholars working with the data by providing statistical manipulations of data and high quality graphical outputs for publication. The broad aim of the project was to act as a facilitator for a general methodological and statistical advance in the area of European fiscal history, with data capture and the interpretation of data in key publications as the measurable indicators of that advance. The data were originally deposited at the UK Data Archive in SAS transport format and as ASCII files; however, data files in this new edition have been saved as tab delimited files. Furthermore, this new edition features documentation in the form of a single file containing essential data file metadata, source details and notes of interest for particular files. Main Topics: The files in this dataset relate to those held in the Database at Leicester in the directory /obrien/.. These data on English revenues, 1485-1815, have been prepared by Professor P.K. O'Brien, Director of the Institute for Historical Research and by Dr P.A. Hunt. Discussion of the English fiscal data in this period can most conveniently be found in Professor O'Brien's chapter in Bonney, The rise of the fiscal state in Europe, forthcoming, 1994. File Information g118ed01. English state taxes and other revenues, 1485-1509 g118ed02. English state taxes and other revenues, 1510-47 g118ed03. English state taxes and other revenues, 1548-58 g118ed04. English state taxes and other revenues, 1559-1603 g118ed05. English state taxes and other revenues, 1604-48 g118ed06. English state taxes and other revenues, 1649-59 g118ed07. English state taxes and other revenues, 1660-88 g118ed08. English state taxes and other revenues, 1689-1727 g118ed09. English state taxes and other revenues, 1728-60 g118ed10. English state taxes and other revenues, 1761-1815 g118ed11. Categories of expenditure by the British government, 1685-1815 (5-year centred averages) g118em01. Revenue to English crown from direct and indirect taxation, 1485-1815 g118em08. Total revenue to English crown, 1485-1815 g118em10. English state taxes and other revenues, 1798-1816 Please note: this study does not include information on named individuals and would therefore not be useful for personal family history research. No sampling (total universe)

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The European State Finance Database (ESFD) is an international collaborative research project for the collection of data in European fiscal history. There are no strict geographical or chronological boundaries to the collection, although data for this collection comprise the period between c.1200 to c.1815. The purpose of the ESFD was to establish a significant database of European financial and fiscal records. The data are drawn from the main extant sources of a number of European countries, as the evidence and the state of scholarship permit. The aim was to collect the data made available by scholars, whether drawing upon their published or unpublished archival research, or from other published material. The ESFD project at the University of Leicester serves also to assist scholars working with the data by providing statistical manipulations of data and high quality graphical outputs for publication. The broad aim of the project was to act as a facilitator for a general methodological and statistical advance in the area of European fiscal history, with data capture and the interpretation of data in key publications as the measurable indicators of that advance. The data were originally deposited at the UK Data Archive in SAS transport format and as ASCII files; however, data files in this new edition have been saved as tab delimited files. Furthermore, this new edition features documentation in the form of a single file containing essential data file metadata, source details and notes of interest for particular files. Main Topics: The files in this dataset relate to the datafiles held in the Leicester database in the directory /poul/.. The data were compiled from various medieval sources and, for the early modern period, the source used is M.L. Nathanson, Historisk statistik Fremstilling af Danmarks National og Stats Huusholdning fra Frederik den Fjerdes Tid indtil Nutiden, (Copenhagen, 1836). File Information g130dd04. Revenues of the Particulair-Kasse (the king's special revenues), 1731-1.7.1771 g130dd05. Revenues from toll, excise duties and subsidies, 1747-1806 g130dd06. Expenditure of the Danish state, 1731-84 g130dd07. The national debt of Denmark, 1731-63 g130dd08. Expenditure of the Danish state, 1602-99 g130dd09. Revenues of the Danish state, 1600-50 g130dd10. Ordinary and extraordinary revenues of the Danish state, 1710-20 g130dd11. Total revenue from the Danish domains (len and Amter), 1642-48 g130dd12. Revenue from the 'Uniontaxes' from Denmark, the Norwegian fiefs (len) and the towns and clergy in Norway, 1640-48 g130dd13. Revenue from the Sound toll, 1636-48 g130dd14. Ordinary and extraordinary revenues of the Danish state, 1710-20 g130dd15. Annual Danish mint output, 1626-70 g130dd16. Revenue from the Sound toll, 1560-84 g130dd17. Revenue from Danish taxes, 1558-87 g130dd18. Estimated revenues of the Danish king, c 1230 and c 1524 g130dd19. Revenues of the Danish Finansdeputation, 1820-40 g130dd20. Revenues of the Danish Statsgeldsdirektion, 1820-40 g130dd21. Revenues of the Danish state, 1841-53 g130dd22. Revenues of the Danish state, 1854-67 g130dd23. Revenues and expenditure of Aabenraa amt, Schleswig, 1535-39 g130dd24. Revenues of the Danish central administration, 1513-23, including domestic credit g130dd25. Revenues of the Swedish royal chamber, 1527-37 g130dd26. Total debt of the Danish king, 1534-48 g130dm01. Danish royal revenues, 1710-1806 g130dm02. Danish royal revenues and expenditure, 1710-1806 g130dm03. Expenditure of the Danish state, 1710-1784 g130dm04. Revenue from the Sound toll, 1560-1648 g130dm05. Revenue to the Danish monarchy from Denmark, Norway and Schleswig-Holstein, 1731-71 g130dm06.* Denmark and Norway: army size, army cost and revenue to Danish monarchy, 1730-1769 Please note: this study does not include information on named individuals and would therefore not be useful for personal family history research.

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The European State Finance Database (ESFD) is an international collaborative research project for the collection of data in European fiscal history. There are no strict geographical or chronological boundaries to the collection, although data for this collection comprise the period between c.1200 to c.1815. The purpose of the ESFD was to establish a significant database of European financial and fiscal records. The data are drawn from the main extant sources of a number of European countries, as the evidence and the state of scholarship permit. The aim was to collect the data made available by scholars, whether drawing upon their published or unpublished archival research, or from other published material. The ESFD project at the University of Leicester serves also to assist scholars working with the data by providing statistical manipulations of data and high quality graphical outputs for publication. The broad aim of the project was to act as a facilitator for a general methodological and statistical advance in the area of European fiscal history, with data capture and the interpretation of data in key publications as the measurable indicators of that advance. The data were originally deposited at the UK Data Archive in SAS transport format and as ASCII files; however, data files in this new edition have been saved as tab delimited files. Furthermore, this new edition features documentation in the form of a single file containing essential data file metadata, source details and notes of interest for particular files. Main Topics: The files in this dataset relate to the datafiles held in the Leicester database in the directory /orm/.. Taken from miscellaneous published and unpublished data, they relate to English revenues, especially those from indirect taxation. File Information g131ed01. Revenue from the customs and subsidies on wool exports from England, 1400-85 g131ed02. Revenue from the customs duties on cloth exports from England, 1400-85 g131ed03. Revenue from tunnage and poundage, 1399-1482 g131ed04. Revenue from the petty custom, 1400-82 g131ed05. Revenue from the butlerage (new custom on wine), 1322-1485 g131ed06. Revenue from the customs and subsidies on overseas trade, 1275-1399 g131ed07. Revenues from the customs on overseas trade, 1304-1485 g131ed08. Lay taxes on movable property, 1207-1485 g131ed09. Direct taxes in wool (1339, 1341, 1342) and on agricultural produce (1340) g131ed10. Lay poll taxes, 1377-81 g131ed11. Lay income taxes, 1404-74 g131ed12. Taxes on Knights' Fees and Households, 1428 g131ed13. Poll taxes on aliens, 1440-85 g131ed14. Benevolences, 1475 and 1482 g131ed15. Direct taxes on clerical incomes, 1272-1485 g131ed16. Clerical taxes ordered by the Pope and paid to the English crown, 1227-1334 g131ed17. Clerical poll taxes, 1377-1450 g131ed18. Feudal aids, 1205-1401 g131ed19. Scutages, 1200-1306 g131ed20. Selected tallages levied on the royal demesne and towns, 1168-1312 g131ed21. Tallages levied on the Jews in England, 1221-87 g131ed22. Clerical dona, 1203-1333 g131ed23. English exchequer receipt roll totals, 1377-1485 g131ed24. English exchequer `genuine' loans, 1377-1485 g131ed25. English exchequer receipt roll totals, 1327-77 g131ed26. English exchequer new loans, 1350-77 g131ed27. Ordinary revenue of the English crown, 1322-40 (notional gross totals) g131ed28. Extraordinary revenue of the English crown, 1327-43 g131ed29. Total French treasury receipts and notional total English revenue, 1322-45 (in kilos of fine silver) g131ed30. Notional receipts and total notional revenue of the English crown, 1370-1410 g131ed31. Notional receipts and total notional revenue of the English crown, 1462-85 g131ed32. Danegeld and the total money supply in England, expressed in pounds sterling of account and in kilos of fine silver, 991-1018 g131ed33. Revenues of the English crown in 1129-30 (in pounds sterling of account) g131ed34. Debts from earlier years accounted for in the English exchequer in 1129-30 (in pounds sterling of account) g131ed35. Annual average value of fines imposed for the purchase of wardships and marriages of heirs of tenants-in-chief, 1154-1327 g131ed36. Net receipts from royal management of episcopal temporalities, 1166-1307 g131ed37. Net receipts from crown estates under Henry III g131ed38. Net receipts from ordinary revenue accounted for at the Exchequer, 1241-1245 g131ed39. Seignorage and mintage on silver and gold at the English mints, 1279-1377 g131ed40. The value of general merchandise imported and exported by denizen merchants and subject to poundage, 1350-1399 g131ed41. The value of merchandise imported and exported by aliens and subject to poundage, 1350-1399 g131ed42. The value of merchandise imported and exported by aliens subject to the petty custom, 1350-1399 and revenue from the petty custom g131ed43. Wine imports to England subject to taxation and revenue from tunnage, 1350-1399 g131ed44. Broadcloths, worsteds and kerseys exported from England, 1349-1399, subject to the cloth customs of 1303 and 1347 and to poundage g131ed45. Multipliers to convert values of cloth to revenue from poundage on cloth (in pounds sterling), 1350-99 g131ed46. Net receipts from feudal aids, scutages and associated fines and ecclesiastical dona, 1199-1272 g131em01. Notional revenue from customs and subsidies on various commodities exported from England, 1400-85 g131em02. Income from the ancient custom and the new custom on wool and woolfells and from the wool subsidy, 1280-1547 g131em03. Revenue from the customs on English cloth imports and exports, 1303-1547 g131em04. Revenue to the crown from the customs and subsidies on English wool and cloth, 1280-1547 g131em05. Revenue to the English crown from the new custom on general merchandise, 1303-1482 g131em06. Revenue to the crown from tunnage and poundage, 1400-1500 g131em07. The volume of trade in English wool and cloth, 1280-1547 g131em08. The relative value of English wool and cloth exports, 1280-1500 g131em09. Revenues to the English crown from customs and subsidies, 1280-1547 g131em10. Revenue to English crown from direct taxation of the laity, 1207-1485 g131em11. Revenue to English crown from direct taxation of the clergy, 1227-1485 g131em12. Net revenue to English crown from direct taxation, 1168-1485 g131em13. Revenue to English crown from direct and indirect taxation, 1207-1547 g131em14. Net receipts to English crown from its feudal prerogatives, 1168-1401 g131em17. Revenues to the English crown from direct and indirect taxation, 1168-1547 g131em18. Total revenue to the English crown from taxation and total Exchequer receipts and loans, 1327-1485 g131em19. Revised income from cloth customs, 1349-1399 as percentage of total value of exported cloth g131em20. Potential revenue to the crown from tunnage and poundage, 1350-1399 g131em21. Relative values of direct and indirect taxation, 1350-99 g131em22. Relative value of indirect taxation as percentage of receipt roll totals, 1350-99 g131em23.* Relative burden of direct and indirect taxation in England, 1290-1460 Please note: this study does not include information on named individuals and would therefore not be useful for personal family history research.

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The European State Finance Database (ESFD) is an international collaborative research project for the collection of data in European fiscal history. There are no strict geographical or chronological boundaries to the collection, although data for this collection comprise the period between c.1200 to c.1815. The purpose of the ESFD was to establish a significant database of European financial and fiscal records. The data are drawn from the main extant sources of a number of European countries, as the evidence and the state of scholarship permit. The aim was to collect the data made available by scholars, whether drawing upon their published or unpublished archival research, or from other published material. The ESFD project at the University of Leicester serves also to assist scholars working with the data by providing statistical manipulations of data and high quality graphical outputs for publication. The broad aim of the project was to act as a facilitator for a general methodological and statistical advance in the area of European fiscal history, with data capture and the interpretation of data in key publications as the measurable indicators of that advance. The data were originally deposited at the UK Data Archive in SAS transport format and as ASCII files; however, data files in this new edition have been saved as tab delimited files. Furthermore, this new edition features documentation in the form of a single file containing essential data file metadata, source details and notes of interest for particular files. Main Topics: The files in this dataset relate to the data files held in the Leicester database in the directory /armies/.. The interest of this data in the longer term is to build up a run of statistics for the period of the so-called military revolution'. This was a decisive factor in the increase of state expenditure on war and the creation of the so-calledfiscal military state'. It may also be possible to build up, in the longer term, calculations of a relative state efficiency (expenditure in terms of army size), relative state mobilization (army size in terms of overall population levels) and an index of state expenditure in real terms (via the cost of payment of armies). File Information g103ded1. Size and cost of Danish and Norwegian armies, 1680-1765 g103ded2. Size and cost of Danish and Norwegian armies, 1771-1813 g103ded3. Contributions towards the Danish and Norwegian armies from provincial chambers, 1771-1813 g103ded4. Cost of the Danish and Norwegian army, 1814-1896 g103dem1. Total manpower and composition of the Danish and Norwegian armies, 1680-1813 g103dem2. Total cost of the Danish and Norwegian armies in cash, 1680-1810 g103ned1. Strength of the Dutch army, 1595-1793 g103nem1. Total manpower of the Danish/Norwegian and Dutch armies, 1680-1769? Please note: this study does not include information on named individuals and would therefore not be useful for personal family history research. No sampling (total universe)