The History of Parliamentary Taxation in England

by Shepard Ashman Morgan

[187] In this connection see McKechnie, Magna Carta, 281; 2 Stubbs, Const. Hist. Eng. 148-150, and Sel. Chart. 497; Medley, Eng. Const. Hist. 507, 508.

[188] Patent Rolls, 24th Oct., 1301, in Stubbs, Sel. Chart. 446.

[189] See 2 Stubbs, Const. Hist. Eng. 156-158, citing 1 Parliamentary Writs, 104.

[190] 2 Walt. de Hemingb. 223.

[191] 1 Parl. Writs, 134-135, in Stubbs, Sel. Chart. 500-501.

[192] Carta Mercatoria, in Hall, 1 History of the Customs, Appendix, 202-208; 1 ibid. 69-70.

[193] 2 Walt. de Hemingb. 233; Patent Rolls, a. 1304, 6th Feb., in Stubbs, Sel. Chart. 447.

[194] 1 Rot. Parl. 161-162.

[195] The only other instance of taxation to be noted was the aid granted in 1306 by knights and barons (a thirtieth), and by citizens and burgesses (a twentieth), on the occasion of knighting the king’s son. 1 Rymer, Foedera, part 4, 48.

[196] 1 Rymer, Foedera, part 4, 112. Also, Stubbs, 2 Const. Hist. Eng. 331.