The period from 1294 until 1307 saw England engaged in wars with the French, the Welsh and the Scotch. In only three years, 1299, 1302, and 1305 was there no campaign. The object of this dissertation is to examine the ways in which the country was mobilised for this exceptional military effort, and to investigate the means by which the wars were financed. Various aspects of both the military and administrative history of this period have been dealt with by Tout, Morris and others, but much of the surviving evidence has not been fully used, and no historian has attempted to treat the subject as a whole.

Title in Chinese: / Includes bibliographical references / Thesis (M.Ph.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1986

prepared by Chu Yan-kit. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 125-145). / Abstract also in Chinese. / Acknowledgments --- p.iii-iv / List of Tables and Figures --- p.vii-ix / List of Abbreviations --- p.x / Abstract --- p.xi-xiv / Chapter Chapter One: --- Introduction --- p.1-39 / Chapter 1.1 --- Scope and Purpose --- p.1-2 / Chapter 1.2 --- Literature Review --- p.3-18 / Chapter 1.2.1 --- Public Budgeting Researches in Hong Kong --- p.3-4 / Chapter 1.2.2 --- On-Hand Budgeting Theories --- p.5-12 / Chapter 1.2.3 --- Neo-Institutional Approach --- p.13-18 / Chapter 1.3 --- Conceptualization --- p.19-27 / Chapter 1.3.1 --- Premises of the Explanatory Model --- p.19 / Chapter 1.3.2 --- Rationale of the Model --- p.20-27 / Chapter 1.4 --- Operationalization --- p.28-36 / Chapter 1.4.1 --- Working Definitions --- p.28-29 / Chapter 1.4.2 --- Operationalization of the Research --- p.29-32 / Chapter 1.4.3 --- Indicators and Hypotheses --- p.32-34 / Chapter 1.4.4 --- Methodology --- p.35-36 / Chapter 1.5 --- Organization of the Research --- p.37 / Notes --- p.38-39 / Chapter Chapter Two： --- The Background --- p.40-69 / Chapter 2.1 --- Characteristics of the Colonial Public Finance System & Marco-Economic Context for the Public Finance System --- p.40-47 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- Revenue Aspect of the Public Finance System --- p.40-41 / Chapter 2.1.2 --- Expenditure Aspect of the Public Finance System 42- --- p.47 / Chapter 2.2 --- Macro Economic Context for the Two Institutional Levels from the 1970s to the 1990s --- p.48-53 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Financially Non-Stringent & Stringent Periods for the First Level Institutions --- p.48-50 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Non-Hostile & Hostile Periods for the Second Level Institutions --- p.51-53 / Chapter 2.3 --- Composition and Characteristics of the Actors in the Two Institutional Levels --- p.54-59 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- Actors in the First Level Institutions and the Second Level Institutions --- p.54 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- Superior Position of the Policy A ctors / the Star Chamber over the Administrative Departments in Public Finance --- p.54-59 / Chapter 2.4 --- Institutional Setting in the First Level Institutions and the Second Level Institutions --- p.59-62 / Chapter 2.4.1 --- Institutional-Setting of the First Level Institutions --- p.59-61 / Chapter 2.4.2 --- Institutional-Setting of the Second Level Institutions --- p.62 / Notes --- p.63-69 / Chapter Chapter Three: --- Analysis of First Level Institutions --- p.70-84 / Chapter 3.1 --- Crown Land Leasing Manipulation --- p.71-75 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- Official Depiction by the Policy Actors --- p.71-72 / Chapter 3.1.2 --- Temporal Land Sale Patterns --- p.73-75 / Chapter 3.2 --- Manipulation on the Operation of Colonial Taxation System --- p.76-83 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- Adherence of How Tax Regime --- p.76-78 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- Manipulation of the Content of Tax Reform by the Policy Actors --- p.79 / Chapter 3.2.3 --- "The Importance of Indirect Tax, Fees & Charges and Fund Recovery in Government Revenue Extraction" --- p.80-83 / Notes --- p.84 / Chapter Chapter Four: --- Analysis of Second Level Institutions --- p.85-114 / Chapter 4.1 --- "Budget Patterns of the Delivery Agency, the Regulatory Agency & the Delivery / Trading Agency" --- p.87-96 / Chapter 4.1.1 --- Budget Patterns of the Delivery Agency 一 LD --- p.87-89 / Chapter 4.1.2 --- Budget Patterns of the Regulatory Agencies ´ؤ TDD and PD --- p.90-92 / Chapter 4.1.3 --- Budget Patterns of the Delivery / Trading Agency - HA &HD --- p.93-96 / Chapter 4.2 --- "Budget Patterns of the Taxing Agencies - FR, IRD, R&V, TR and AD" --- p.97-102 / Chapter 4.3 --- "Budget Patterns f or the Transfer/Regulatory Agency, the Servicing Agency and the Trading Agency" --- p.103-112 / Chapter 4.3.1 --- "Budget Patterns of the Regulatory / Transfer Agencies - PELB & WB, TB and HB" --- p.103-105 / Chapter 4.3.2 --- Budget Patterns of the Servicing Agency - HRD --- p.106-107 / Chapter 4.3.3 --- Budget Patterns of the Trading Agency - LDC --- p.108-112 / Notes --- p.113-114 / Chapter Chapter Five: --- Conclusion & Discussion --- p.115-120 / Appendices --- p.121-124 / Chapter I. --- Profile of Interviewees --- p.121 / Chapter II. --- Interview Questions for the Land & Housing Administrative Departments --- p.122 / Chapter III. --- Interview Questions for Finance Committee of the LegCo --- p.123 / Chapter IV. --- Interview Questions for the Housing Branch --- p.124 / References --- p.125-145 / Chapter A. --- "Economy, Society and Politics of Hong Kong" --- p.125-128 / Chapter B. --- Government Document and Interview Material --- p.129-132 / Chapter C. --- Local Budgetary Researches and Local Public Finance Material --- p.133-137 / Chapter D. --- Budgetary Theories and Neo-Institutionalism --- p.138-145