The History of Parliamentary Taxation in England

by Shepard Ashman Morgan

[370] See the list of members in 2 Parl. Hist. 597-629.

[371] Taswell-Langmead, Eng. Const. Hist. 455, quoting 1 Clarendon, Hist. 171.

[372] The time was from 25th May, to 15th July, 1641.

[373] The Act is given in Gardiner, Const. Doc. 88-91.

[374] The Act is given in Gardiner, Const. Doc. 115.

[375] By subsequent statutes, an end was put to purveyance, distraint of knighthood, and forest extension. Parliament then came forward with a grant of six subsidies and a poll tax equivalent to six subsidies more.

[376] 2 Hallam, Const. Hist. Eng. 138, 139.

[377] Gardiner, Const. Doc. 127-155.

[378] For further details see Taswell-Langmead, Eng. Const. Hist. 483, 484; and 2 Dowell, Taxation and Taxes, 8 et seq.

[379] The text is in Taswell-Langmead, Eng. Const. Hist. 512-518 and in Adams and Stephens, Sel. Doc. 462-469.