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
From the subsidy on wool £20,000 is awarded to the
“Lords Appellant,” who had brought charges against the royal favorites
upon which they were convicted and punished. 3 _Rot. Parl._ 244-245.
The increase of custom on wool is forbidden. Fall session. A tenth and
a fifteenth. 2 Stubbs, _Const. Hist. Eng._ 505, note 3, and citations.
Parliament of 1390. Subsidy on wool and merchandise. 3 _Rot. Parl._
278. Parliament of 1391. A fifteenth and a half and a tenth and a half.
Above subsidy on wool and merchandise renewed for three years at an
increased rate. 3 _Rot. Parl._ 285-286. Parliament of 1393. Grant on
wool and merchandise for three years. 3 _Rot. Parl._ 301. Parliament
of 1394. Tunnage and poundage. 3 _Rot. Parl._ 314. Parliament of 1395.
Fifteenth and tenth. 3 _Rot. Parl._ 330. Parliament of 1397. Custom
on wool for five years. Tunnage and poundage for three years. Protest
registered against the extravagance of the court. 3 _Rot. Parl._ 340.
Parliament of 1398. A tenth and a half and a fifteenth and a half. A
subsidy on wool, woolfells, and leather for the term of Richard’s life.
3 _Rot. Parl._ 368.
[251] The scheme is given in translation in Adams and Stephens, _Sel.
Doc._ 142-144, from the original in 3 _Rot. Parl._ 90.
[252] 2 Stubbs. _Const. Hist. Eng._ 471.
[253] 3 _Rot. Parl._ 368.
[254] 3 _Rot. Parl._ 417 ff.
[255] 2 Thom. de Wals. 230-231. Cf. 3 _Rot. Parl._ 62.
[256] 3 _Rot. Parl._ 458. Translation given in Adams and Stephens,
_Sel. Doc._ 173.
[257] 3 _Rot. Parl._ 493.
[258] 3 _Rot. Parl._ 611. Translation given in Adams and Stephens,
_Sel. Doc._ 125-127.
[259] In 1472 was a marked departure from the rule. A grant regularly
enacted, appropriating revenue and income of the commons, was
changed by the lords to include a tax on their own property. 6 _Rot.
Parl._ 4-8. The good intent of the act, justified in the eyes of
contemporaries, apparently, its irregularity.
[260] 3 _Rot. Parl._ 612.
[261] 4 _Rot. Parl._ 301-302.
[262] 5 _Rot. Parl._ 152-153.
[263] 5 _Rot. Parl._ 508.
[264] 1 Dowell, _Taxation and Taxes_, 197.
[265] 6 _Rot. Parl._ 238-240.
[266] “For certainly wee be determined rather to aventure and committe
us to the perill of oure lyfs and jopardye of deth, than to lyve in
suche thraldome and bondage as we have lyved long tyme heretofore,
oppressed and injured by Extorcions and newe Imposicons, agenst the
Lawes of God and Man, and the Libertee, old Police, and Lawes of this
Reame, wheryn every Englishman is enherited.” 6 _Rot. Parl._ 241.
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