Citations:tricesimation

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English citations of tricesimation

• 1995, Peter H. Wilson, War, State and Society in Württemberg, 1677–1793, chapter 4: “Regent Friedrich Carl, 1677–1693”, page 117

  On 14 May the long-projected Transmutation of the militia into regular soldiers was enacted⁷⁶ and on 25 June a fifth emergency tax was introduced to cover the increased expense. This was the Tricesimation which was the ducal answer to the estates’ Accise. For the first time the duke had a tax that both approximated to the level of economic production and above all was under his control.⁷⁷

  ⁷⁶ HSAS, a202: Bü. 1982, 1986, 1989; l6.22.4.11. Organisational details of the new force which totalled 6,015 men are printed in Stadlinger, Kriegswesens, p. 347. In addition, the duchy had 1,127 Kreistruppen, or together 7,142 soldiers. As a point of comparison, the much larger electorate of Saxony maintained proportionately fewer troops: in 1693 its army numbered 11,809 effectives: Thum, Rekrutierung, p. 88.

  ⁷⁷ HSAS, a202: Bü. 2201; Reyscher, Gesetze, xix/1, p. 295. The Tricesimation was a one-thirtieth purchase and produce tax collected by ducal officials and paid via the local Vogteikassen to a central Tricesimationskasse administrated by the Kriegsrat. No records of the level collected survive, but around 1700 the Tricesimation brought in about 100,000fl. annually.

• 2006, Paul Warde, Ecology, Economy and State Formation in Early Modern Germany, page 148

  Between 1691 and 1724 cultivators were subject to the Tricesimation, a tax of one-thirtieth of grain and wine produced.