Excerpt from History of the Custom-Revenue in England, Vol. 1: From the Earliest Times to the Year 1827 In order to recognise the truth of the foregoing remarks, let us examine the treatment of the subject by the greatest Of modern historians in the general opinion. In his Constitutional History, ' Professor Stubbs has justly recognised the importance of an adequate description of the Customs, and has not shrunk from the task of defining both the Great and Petty Customs, the Prisage and the Subsidy. As we should have expected, we find this writer depend ing wholly for his information upon the works of Madox and Hale in point, with a result which fully justifies our previous estimate of the inutility Of those authors for purposes Of reference. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.