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In the composite monarchies of the ancien régime raising money was the core business of provincial estates, which usually assessed and sometimes collected the financial contribution made by their region to the metropolitan power. Some estates acted as representatives of their locality against the interests of the centre, frustrating demands for excessive subsidy in order to protect the local economy or safeguard the tax exemptions of the privileged élite; others did the business of the state, ensuring the return of sufficient funds for the operating needs of central government.
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T. C. Barnard, Cromwellian Ireland: English Government and Reform in Ireland 1649–1660 (Oxford, 1975), pp. 28–30; Michael Braddick, The Nerves of State: Taxation and the Financing of the English State, 1558–1714 (Manchester, 1996), p. 99; Donnelly, ‘Customs and Excise’, pp. 10–11; P. K. O’Brien and P. A. Hunt, ‘The Emergence and Consolidation of Excises in the English Fiscal System before the Glorious Revolution’ in British Tax Review, i (1997), pp. 43–51.
C. I. McGrath, ‘English Ministers, Irish Politicians and the Making of a Parliamentary Settlement in Ireland, 1692–5’ in EHR, cxix (2004), pp. 585–613.
See Jacqueline Hill, ‘“Allegories, Fictions, and Feigned Representations”: Decoding the Money Bill Dispute, 1752–6’ in Eighteenth-Century Ireland, xxi (2006), pp. 66–88.
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McGrath, C.I. (2010). Money, Politics and Power: The Financial Legislation of the Irish Parliament. In: Hayton, D.W., Kelly, J., Bergin, J. (eds) The Eighteenth-Century Composite State. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230274969_2
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