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 The aim was to collect the data made available by scholars, whether drawing upon their published or unpublished archival research, or from other published material.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.
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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.
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Compilation or synthesis of existing material
