A Sketch of the History of Taxes in England from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, Volume 1 |
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according aforesaid amount assessment and collection auxilium barons biens bishops boroughs Canterbury Tales carucage charge chattels Chron cities citizens clergy cloth commencement customs danegeld earls Edward III Eliz England exactions Exch Exchequer expedition exported fees feudal fifteenth and tenth Foedera France freemen Gascony grant Henry III Hist horses Ibid imposed Jews king king's kingdom knight's fee knights land leather levied London lord Madox manner manors marks Matt ment merchant strangers merchants Normandy oath paid Parliament payment period person Pipe Roll poll tax port duties poundage principal realm regards reign of Edward rent revenue Rolls royal demesne sack of wool Saladin tithe scutage sea-coal Select Charters sheep sheriff shillings ship shire Statute Stubbs subsequently subsidy tallage taxation taxes on moveables taxors tenants termed tion towns township tunnage villeins wapentake wool woolfells writ
Popular passages
Page 281 - ... your subjects have inherited this freedom, that they should not be compelled to contribute to any tax, tallage, aid, or other like charge not set by common consent in parliament...
Page 35 - No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed, or outlawed, or banished, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor send upon him, except by the legal judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.
Page 40 - They greatly oppressed the wretched people by making them work at these castles, and when the castles were finished they filled them with devils and evil men. Then they took those whom they suspected to have any goods, by night and by day, seizing both men and women, and they put them in prison for their gold and silver and tortured them with pains unspeakable, for never were any martyrs tormented as these were.
Page 294 - Let tyrants fear; I have always so behaved myself, that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good-will of my subjects. And therefore I am come amongst you at this time, not as for my recreation or sport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all...
Page 357 - It is a nest of wasps, or swarm of vermin which have overcrept the land. I mean the Monopolies and Pollers of the people : these, like the Frogs of Egypt, have gotten possession of our dwellings, and we have scarce a room free from them. They sup in our cup.
Page 281 - That no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax, or such like charge, without common consent, by act of parliament...
Page 294 - I am come amongst you, as you see, at this time, not for my recreation and disport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all, to lay down for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even in the dust.
Page 294 - I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too...
Page 357 - They sup in our cup. They dip in our dish. They sit by our fire. We find them in the dye-fat, wash-bowl, and powdering tub. They share with the butler in his box. They have marked and sealed us from head to foot.
Page 281 - ... before your Privy Council, and in other places, and others of them have been therefore imprisoned, confined, and sundry other ways molested and disquieted: and divers other charges have been laid and levied upon your people in several counties, by...