[135] Stubbs, _Sel. Chart._ 465-468. [136] _Ann. Dunst._ 294, in Stubbs, _Sel. Chart._ 433. [137] Stubbs, _Sel. Chart._ 460. [138] 2 Stubbs, _Const. Hist. Eng._ 124, and authorities there cited. [139] _Cont._ Flor. Wig. 235. The scutage was for forty shillings on the knights fee. [140] _Ann. Osney_, 316, in Stubbs, _Sel. Chart._. 434-435. [141] 2 Stubbs, _Const. Hist. Eng._ 545. [142] “.... magnates et proceres tunc in parliamento existentes, pro se et communitate totius regni quantum in ipsis est, concesserunt domino regi....” etc. Stubbs, _Sel. Chart._ 477; 1 _Rot. Parl._ 25. [143] The boroughs and city of London paid this tax, though they were without special representation. The writ of summons is in Stubbs, _Sel. Chart._ 477. [144] _Ann. Osney_, 326, and _Ann. Dunst._ 362, in Stubbs, _Sel. Chart._ 435. [145] _Cont._ Flor. Wig. 243. [146] 1 Rymer, _Foedera_, part 3, 80-81; _Cont._ Flor. Wig. 264. [147] _Cont._ Flor. Wig. 266. [148] Matth. Westmon. _Flores_, 421. [149] So Bishop Stubbs conjectures, 2 _Const. Hist. Eng._ 131. [150] Barth. Cotton, _De Rege Edwardo I_, 246. [151] 2 Walt. de Hemingb. 53-54. [152] 2 Walt. de Hemingb. 55-57. [153] Stubbs, _Sel. Chart._ 479-482. [154] Barth. Cotton, 254 et. seq.; 2 Walt. de Hemingb. 57. [155] The character of this tax, indeed its very existence, is questioned. Matthew of Westminster (422), mentions a tax on the towns of “the sixth penny.” It may have been either a tallage or a tax by special negotiation, or it may have been granted by the shire representatives on the theory that the towns were included within their shires, though this is most unlikely. See Taswell-Langmead, _Eng. Const. Hist._ 199; 2 Stubbs, _Const. Hist. Eng._ 132; Stubbs, _Sel. Chart._ 480, 483-484. [156] Stubbs. _Sel. Chart._ 482. [157] “Sicut lex justissima, provida circumspectione sacrorum principum stabilita, hortatur et statuit ut quod omnes tangit ab omnibus approbetur, sic et nimis evidenter ut communibus periculis per remedia provisa communiter obvietur.... Præmunientes priorem et capitulum ecclesiæ vestræ, archidiacones, totumque clerum vestræ diocesis, facientes quod iidem prior et archidiaconi in propriis personis suis, et dictum capitulum per unum, idemque clerus per duos procuratores idoneos, plenam et sufficientem potestatem ab ipsis capitulo et clero habentes ... ad tractandum, ordinandum et faciendum....” Stubbs, _Sel. Chart._ 484. Translation in Adams and Stephens, _Sel. Doc._ 82. [158] The phrase occurs in the codes of Justinian. Cod. V, lix, 5; Taswell-Langmead, _Eng. Const. Hist._ 200, note 1. [159] Stubbs, _Sel. Chart._ 485. Translation Adams and Stephens, _Sel. Doc._ 83.