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Senate House Library, University of London

Report on English customs revenue

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0096 MS 140

Held at: Senate House Library, University of London

Title: Report on English customs revenue

Date(s): 1790

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 volume containing 100 leaves

Name of creator(s): Unknown

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The term 'customs' applied to customary payments or dues of any kind, regal, episcopal or ecclesiastical until it became restricted to duties payable to the King upon export or import of certain articles of commerce. A Board of Customs for England and Wales was created by Letter Patent in 1671.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Manuscript volume containing a report signed by Thomas Irving, Inspector General of Customs, headed 'State of the navigation, revenues and commerce of Great Britain in the year 1790'. The report is addressed to William Pitt, Prime Minister, 12 Dec 1790.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Single item.

Conditions governing access:

Access to this collection is unrestricted for the purpose of private study and personal research within the supervised environment and restrictions of the Library's Palaeography Room. Uncatalogued material may not be seen. Please contact the University Archivist for details.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original. Copying must be undertaken by the Palaeography Room staff, who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests.

Physical characteristics:

Manuscript folio. Bound in quarter-morocco.

Finding aids:

Collection level description.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Part of the Goldsmith's Library of Economic Literature, initially collected by Herbert Somerton Foxwell and presented by the Goldsmith's Company to the University of London in 1903.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

University of London manuscripts relating to customs and excise include MS 39, 40, 41, 44, 90, 134, 140, 202, 203, and 204.

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Smith as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.