The History of Parliamentary Taxation in England

by Shepard Ashman Morgan

[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.