The History of Parliamentary Taxation in EnglandMorgan, Shepard Ashman
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The History of Parliamentary Taxation in England
Morgan, Shepard Ashman
Taxation -- Great Britain; Taxation -- Great Britain -- History
Richard III, accession, 216;
benevolences prohibited, 216-217.
St. Albans, Council of, 58-59.
Salisbury, Gemôt of, 13, note.
Scutage, definition of, 30;
early instances, 31;
the Great Scutage, 32-33;
complaint of Archbishop Theobald, 34;
a cause leading to Magna Carta, 50;
list of John’s scutages, 51, and note 1;
fines and other attendant abuses under John, 53-54;
scutage of 1214 precipitates the movement for the Charter, 60;
specified in Magna Carta, 64;
referred to in Henry III’s second reissue, 75;
practice of scutage by consent, Henry III, 76;
scutage of 1242, 86.
Sheriff’s aid, 27, 29.
Ship-money, a precedent in the Danegeld, 10-11;
requisition of ships under Charles I, 264;
first writ, 281;
its object, 283;
second and third writs, 284-285;
extra-judicial opinions, 285-286;
Hampden’s Case, 287-291, 293;
new levy, 294;
declaration of illegality by Long Parliament, 298.
Shire moots, their utilization in taxing, 21.
Star Chamber, its utility in forced loans, 251.
_Statutum de tallagio non concedendo_, 150, 151, 159, 167;
cited in Petition of Right, 271.
Stephen, 24-26.
Subsidy, the “new-found,” 219-220;
value of under Elizabeth, 234, note 1.
Supplies, appropriation of, see under Appropriation.
Tallage, under Henry II and Richard I, 47, note 1;
definition of, 65, note 1;
possibly provided against in Magna Carta, 65-66;
Kirkby’s tallages, 1290, 120;
tallage not referred to in _Confirmatio Cartarum_, 149;
the “statute” _De Tallagio non Concedendo_, 150-151;
tallage of 1304, 159;
tallage of 1312 resisted, 167;
revival under Edward III, 170;
its withdrawal, 171;
a function of Parliament, 177-178.
Theobald, Archbishop, his complaint against scutage, 34.
_Trinoda necessitas_, 4.
Tudors, character of their reigns, 217-219.
Tunnage and poundage, in _Carta Mercatoria_, 158;
given James I for life, 239;
delay in grant to Charles I, 261, 263;
arbitrary levies, 273;
Charles renounces tunnage and poundage, 274-275;
failure to pass a life allowance, 275-276;
tumult over the Rolles case, 277;
resolution against the levies, 278;
reëstablishment, 280;
declaration of illegality, 297.
Villeins, Rising of, 198-199.
Wallingford, treaty of, 26.
Walter, Hubert, justiciar, at Richard I’s Council of Oxford, 44-45.
Westminster, Statute of, 110-111.
William the Conqueror, character of his rule, 13;
attitude toward his National Council, 14.
William and Mary, 306-308.
William Rufus, character of his reign, 17-18.
Winchester, Bishop of, his refusal of assent, 69.
Witenagemot, folkland alienable only by its consent, 4;
assents to levies of Danegeld, 8;
powers and composition, 9-11.
Wolsey, Cardinal, his breach of Parliamentary privilege, 222-224.
Woodstock, Controversy of, 27-30.
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