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TAXATION UNDER THE STUARTS TO THE CIVIL

WAR. 1603-1642.

THE CUSTOMS SUBSIDIES OF WOOL, SKINS AND LEATHER,

AND TUNNAGE ON WINE AND POUNDAGE ON GOODS.

Life grants of the subsidies to king James. The difference between

these subsidies and the customs and imposts. Yield of the

revenue in 1604. Increase in the consumption of wine. The

impost on tobacco in 1604. The impost on currants. Bates

refuses to pay. The great case of impositions--Bates's case in

1606. The new book of rates and new impositions in 1608.

Other impositions in the nature of internal taxes. Projects for

taxes at this time. Dread of excises. Remonstrance of the

commons, in 1610, against the excessive impositions. Cecil

effects an arrangement and a subsidy is granted. Yield of the

revenue in 1613. Appointment of Cranfield as surveyor-

general. Yield of the revenue in 1617 and in 1619. Yield in

1623. On the accession of king Charles, the commons raise

the question of imposts. Limited grant of the customs sub-

sidies rejected by the lords. Parliament is dissolved. Tunnage

and poundage are levied under order in council. The second

parliament in 1626. The committee of grievances. Parliament

is dissolved. The third parliament in 1628. The Petition of

Right. It does not touch the imposts. Remonstrance against

the levy of tunnage and poundage in 1629. Dissolution of

the parliament. Yield of the revenue in 1635. The new book

of rates. The short parliament, 1640. The question of imposts

is settled in the long parliament.

DIRECT TAXES, INCLUDING FIFTEENTHS AND TENTHS,

THE GENERAL SUBSIDIES, AND POLL TAXES.

The old system of fifteenths and tenths and subsidies continued.

Grant of six fifteenths and tenths and four subsidies in 1605,

and of one fifteenth and tenth and one subsidy in 1609. Grants

in 1620 and 1623. The last of the fifteenths and tenths. Grant

of five subsidies to king Charles in 1628. Six subsidies for the

northern army granted in December 1640 and February 1641.

Grant, in July 1641, of a poll tax for the disbandment of the

The ship writs. Position of the king as regards the imposition of

taxes upon property. The Petition of Right. Expedients for

obtaining revenue used during the personal rule of Charles I.

The king is desirous, in 1634, of increasing the navy. Noy

frames the ship writs. Precedents for these writs in the times

of the Plantagenets, the Spanish Armada in 1588, the attack

on Algiers in 1618, and the war with Spain, 1626. Noy's

difficulty in draughting the first writs for maritime counties and

towns. First issue of the writs in October, 1634. The amount

raised by the writs. No serious opposition to them. Second

issue of writs for inland as well as maritime counties and

towns in August, 1635. The amount raised.

the levy. A case is submitted to the judges.

Third and fourth issues of writs. Hampden's

of the court. Fifth and sixth issues of writs. The short par-

liament. The long parliament, September 1640. The Act

against ship money.

THE TARIFF OF HONORS.

1. BENEVOLENCES.

Benevolence levied in 1614 after the dissolution of the addled

parliament.' Another, in 1622, for the Palatinate. Suppression

of forced loans and benevolences by the Petition of Right, in

1627

The question of monopolies raised in 1621

The statute against

monopolies in 1624. Noy's project of soap in 1637. Cul-

pepper's observations on the monopolists in 1640

3. THE TARIFF OF HONORS.

Copied from the measures of Sully in France. Creation of the

new order of baronets. The price of other titles

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BOOK I.

BEFORE THE NORMAN CONQUEST.

CHAPTER I.

ANCIENT BRITAIN AND BRITAIN UNDER THE ROMANS.

CHAPTER II.

THE ANGLO-SAXONS.

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