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
[282] Stat. 21 Henry VIII, c. 24, cited in Taswell-Langmead, _Eng.
Const. Hist._ 301. 1 _Parl. Hist._ 507.
[283] 1 _Parl. Hist._ 560, 578.
[284] 23 Henry VIII, c. 20, in Adams and Stephens, _Sel. Doc._ 144.
[285] 25 Henry VIII, c. 20.
[286] 25 Henry VIII, c. 21.
[287] 26 Henry VIII, c. 3.
[288] 25 Henry VIII, c. 19.
[289] Dowell, 1 _Taxation and Taxes_, 202, quoting 2 _Mackintosh_, 433,
appendix.
[290] Taswell-Langmead, _Eng. Const. Hist._ 377, quoting 4 _Parl.
Hist._ 480.
[291] The subsidy at this time, by a conservative estimate, amounted
probably to £80,000, making the demand equal to £240,000.
[292] 1 Hallam, _Const. Hist. Eng._ 375, quoting D’Ewes, 486.
[293] Gneist. _Const. Hist. Eng._ 546.
[294] Taswell-Langmead, _Eng. Const. Hist._ 177.
[295] 1 _Parliamentary History of England_, London, 1806, 967, 970.
[296] The case is in 1 _Parl. Hist._ 998-1017. See also
Taswell-Langmead, _Eng. Const. Hist._ 267-268.
[297] 1 _Parl. Hist._ 1030-1042.
[298] 1 Ibid. 1044-1045.
[299] The rate of this grant of tunnage and poundage: Tunnage, 3 s. on
every tun of wine imported, save that on the tun of sweet wines the
charge was 6 s., and on the awm of Rhenish, 1 s. Poundage, 1 s. on
every 20 s. of goods or merchandise imported or exported, except woolen
manufactures; on tin and pewter the charge was 2 s. Wool of denizens,
33 s. 4 d. on the sack or 240 woolfells and £3, 6 s., 8 d. on the last
of hides.--1 _Parl. Hist._ 1046.
[300] 1 _Parl. Hist._ 1069-1070.
[301] Trevelyan, _England Under the Stuarts_, 107.
[302] Medley, _Eng. Const. Hist._ 235.
[303] Prothero, _Statutes and Constitutional Documents, 1559-1625_,
lxxv.
[304] Stat. 45 Edw. III, cap. 4.
[305] The case is reported in Prothero, _Stat. and Const. Doc._ 340-342.
[306] 2 _State Trials_, 481.
[307] Prothero, _Stat. and Const. Doc._ 354.
[308] The arguments of Hakewill and Whitelocke are given in detail in
Prothero, _Stat. and Const. Doc._ 342-353.
[309] Taswell-Langmead, _Eng. Const. Hist._ 395, quoting from Petyt,
_Jus Parliamentum_, 322, 323.
[310] 1 _Parl. Hist._ 1122.
[311] Prothero, _Stat. and Const. Doc._ 411.
[312] 1 _Parl. Hist._ 1133.
[313] 1 _Parl. Hist._ 1159.
[314] 1 _Parl. Hist._ 1166.
[315] 2 Gardiner, _Hist. Eng._ _[_1603-1616_]_ 172.
[316] 1 _Parl. Hist._ 1179-1180.
[317] 1 _Parl. Hist._ 1187.
[318] This was “the revival of the ancient right of Parliamentary
impeachment--the solemn accusation of an individual by the Commons at
the bar of the Lords--which had lain dormant since the impeachment of
the Duke of Suffolk in 1449.” For further details see Taswell-Langmead,
_Eng. Const. Hist._ 409 et seq.
[319] 1 _Parl. Hist._ 1208.
[320] 1 _Parl. Hist._ 1262.
[321] 1 _Parl. Hist._ 1300-1301.
[322] 1 Ibid. 1316-1317.
[323] 1 _Parl. Hist._ 1361-1363.
[324] 1 Ibid. 1366-1371.
[325] 1 _Parl. Hist._ 1487-1488.
[326] 1 Hallam, _Const. Hist. Eng._ 508, 509.
[327] 2 _Parl. Hist._ 6.
[328] 2 Ibid. 33.
[329] 2 Ibid. 35-37.
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