Robert Burns & the How-to of Barrel Gauging
“Alongside the expansion of the state in this period, scientific advances greatly enhanced methods for measuring and taxing goods, and in turn required officials proficient in these complex practices.”
James Fox looks at Robert Burns’s own copy of The Excise Officer’s Pocket Companion
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