‘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).