The History of Parliamentary Taxation in England

by Shepard Ashman Morgan

[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.