If taxation is the mobilization of economic resources for political
ends, it is evident that any study of taxation must probe well
beyond the administrative technicalities of its subject. Social,
economic, political and administrative history are all part of the
investigation.
The early Tudor period is especially significant in the history
of taxation. This new study examines the taxes granted by
parliament to the crown between 1485 and 1547. Under Henry VIII,
taxation based on the direct assessment of each individual was
revived, having been abandoned as unworkable in the fourteenth
century. In the long run, the Tudor experiment failed: direct
assessment was abandoned again after decades of complaint about
evasion and under-assessment in the mid-seventeenth century, and
was not restored until the end of the eighteenth century. But
examination of the experiment, and of the timing and causes of its
failure, throws light on the changing political limits of the Tudor
state.
Schofield's research marks an important advance in our
understanding not only of the fiscal resources available to the
English crown but also of the broader political culture of early
Tudor England.
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