The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625-1660
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625-1660
Great Britain. Parliament
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III. Six subsidies have been granted and a Bill of poll- money, which if it be duly lerod, may equal six subsidies more, in all £6oo,ooo« iia. Besides we l^kve contracted a debt to the Scots of £320,000, yet Qod hath so blessed the endeavours of this Parliament, that the kingdom is a great gainer by all these charges. * 113. The ship-money is abolished, which cost the kingdom about j£aoo,ooo a year. 114. The coat and conduct-money, and other military charges are taken away, which in many countr...ies amounted to little less than the ship-money. 115. The monopolies are all suppressed, whereof some few did prejudice the subject, above j£i, 000,000 yearly. 116. The soap £100,000. XI 7. The wine £300^000. 118. The leather must needs exceed both, and salt could be no less than that. aa2 Constitutional Documents [1641 119. Besides the inferior monopolies, which, if they could be exactly computed, would make up a great sum. ISO. That which is more beneficial than all this is, that the root of these evils is taken away, which was the arbitrary power pretended to be in His Majesty of taxing the subject, or charging their estates without consent in Parliament, which is now declared to be against law by the judgment of both Houses, and likewise by an Act of Parliament.
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