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
[117] Stubbs, _Sel. Chart._ 334; _Chron. Rishanger_, Camden Society, 37.
[118] 1 Rymer, _Foedera_, part 2, 88-89.
[119] This Parliament and the scheme of government which was drawn up
at the session is the subject of considerable dispute. See 2 Stubbs,
_Const. Hist. Eng._ 93-95; and Medley, _Eng. Const. Hist._ 133-134. The
scheme itself is given in Stubbs, _Sel. Chart._ 412 ff, and in 1 Rymer,
_Foedera_, part 2, 89.
[120] The writ is in part as follows: “Item mandatum est singulis
vicecomitibus per Angliam quod venire faciant duos milites de
legalibus, probioribus, et discretioribus militibus singulorum
comitatuum ad regem Londoniis in octavis prædictis in forma supradicta.
“Item in forma prædicta scribitur civibus Eboraci, civibus Lincolniæ,
et ceteris burgis Angliæ, quod mittant in forma prædicta duos
de discretioribus, legalioribus et probioribus tam civibus quam
burgensibus.
“Item in forma prædicta mandatum est baronibus et probis hominibus
Quinque Portuum....” Stubbs, _Sel. Charters_, 415; 1 Rymer, _Foedera_,
part 2, 93.
[121] For a fuller discussion of this rather iconoclastic view of Simon
de Montfort, see Medley, _Eng. Const. Hist._ 134.
[122] T. Wykes, _Chron._ a. 1269, 226-227, in Stubbs, _Sel. Chart._ 337.
[123] _Ann. Winton._ a. 1273, 113; Stubbs, _Sel. Chart._ 429.
[124] _Ann. Winton._ a. 1275, 119; Stubbs, _Sel. Chart._ 430.
[125] Stubbs, _Sel. Chart._ 450.
[126] “... archiepiscopi, episcopi, et alii prælati regni Angliæ ac
comites, barones, et nos (William, Earl of Pembroke) et communitate
ejusdem regni ad instantiam et rogatum mercatorum pluribus de causis
unanimiter concesserimus magnifico principi et domino nostro carissimo
domino Edwardo Dei gratia regi Angliæ illustri, pro nobis et hæredibus
nostris, dimidiam marcam de quolibet sacco lanæ et dimidiam marcam
pro singulis trescentis pellibus lanutis quæ faciunt unum saccum, et
unam marcam de quolibet lesta coriorum, exeuntibus regnum Angliæ....”
Stubbs, _Sel. Chart._ 451; Adams and Stephens, _Sel. Doc._ 69,
translation.
[127] See 1 Hubert Hall, _Customs Revenue of England_, 65-68; 2,
117-118; Medley, _Eng. Const. Hist._ 517-518.
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