A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions / Shewing the nature and measures of crown-lands, assessements, customs, poll-moneys, lotteries, benevolence, penalties, monopolies, offices, tythes, raising of coins, harth-money, excize, &c.; with several intersperst discourses and digressions concerning warres, the church, universities, rents & purchases, usury & exchange, banks & lombards, registries for conveyances, beggars, ensurance, exportation of money [&] wool, free-ports, coins, housing, liberty of conscience, &c.; the same being frequently applied to the present state and affairs of Ireland.

A practical manual analyzes the various forms and burdens of public taxation and proposes measures to organize revenue and reduce unnecessary public expense. It surveys methods such as allocation of crown lands, land assessments, customs, excise, poll monies, monopolies, offices, tithes, lotteries and coinage, and explains how coin debasement and currency variation affect commerce. Interspersed digressions address war, parochial and ecclesiastical reform, universities, beggary, exportation, rents, banks, registries, housing and commerce. Numerous administrative reforms aim to simplify parish structures, trim obsolete fees and offices, improve revenue collection, and suggest practical projects to employ the poor and stimulate trade, with repeated application to contemporary Irish conditions.