The History of Parliamentary Taxation in England
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The History of Parliamentary Taxation in England is a book by Shepard Ashman Morgan. A section headed Taxation by the Commons, 1297-1461, says the years subsequent to 1297 up to the time of the Tudors comprise a period of differentiation within Parliament itself. The text says a statute was passed in the year 1340 to the effect that every form of taxation must have the sanction of Parliament in order to be legal.
The text calls Edward III no statesman but a warrior, energetic, without scruple, lavish, and ambitious, and says that in 1332 he had in mind the reduction of Scotland. A request was addressed to the king praying the recall of the commission for the tallage, and Parliament offered as a substitute a fifteenth from the shires and a tenth from the towns. The text says Edward I summoned the Model Parliament on the expressed theory that "what touches all, by all should be approved."
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- Shepard Ashman Morgan
- Pages
- 131
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- English
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- European History
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