‘Two Interesting Episodes from the Embassy of William Harborne to the Ottoman Empire’ AND ‘A principle of “Natural Justice”: Sir William Petty and the “Royal Absolutist” Case for Excise’
‘Two Interesting Episodes from the Embassy of William Harborne to the Ottoman Empire’

Tobias Graf, The Sultan’s Renegades: Christian-European Converts to Islam and the Making of the Ottoman Elite, 1575-1610 (2017);

Christine Woodhead, ‘Harborne, William’ in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

‘A principle of “Natural Justice”: Sir William Petty and the “Royal Absolutist” Case for Excise’

William Ashworth, Customs and Excise: Trade, Production, and Consumption in England 1640-1845 (2010);

D’Marris Coffman, Excise Tax and the Origins of Public Debt (2013); Noah Dauber, State and Commonwealth: The Theory of State in Early Modern England, 1549-1640 (2016).
Date: 31 January 2019, 17:00 (Thursday, 3rd week, Hilary 2019)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: The Breakfast Room
Speakers: Joel Butler (Wadham College), Matthew Ward (Kellogg College)
Organising department: Faculty of History
Part of: Early Modern Britain Seminar
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Laura Spence