. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . SEAL OF ) II. IOB CISTOMS ON WOOL AND IIIDKS. principle that no charge should be set on wnol but by Parliament. Thus a great danger passed over: for at one time it had seemed that there wotdd be a fourth Estate, an Estate of merchants. Amono-st other forms of indirect taxation, wliich under the The p . 1- 1 < ? Burden of tirni and persistent remonstrances ot the I omuions were Taxation. abandoned
. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . SEAL OF ) II. IOB CISTOMS ON WOOL AND IIIDKS. principle that no charge should be set on wnol but by Parliament. Thus a great danger passed over: for at one time it had seemed that there wotdd be a fourth Estate, an Estate of merchants. Amono-st other forms of indirect taxation, wliich under the The p . 1- 1 < ? Burden of tirni and persistent remonstrances ot the I omuions were Taxation. abandoned, at least in principle, were included, first loans (and when a magnificent but impecunious king was the beggar, an abbey or a borough found it hard to refuse): secondly, commissions of array—these a statute ot ^:Vr2 stigmatised as illegal if taken without consent of Parliament, but when a French fleet or Scottish army was descending on the land, the king would not be patient of claims that the militia sliould serve <iidy in its own county or at the kings wages; thirdly, there was purvej-ancc, the royal riglit of taking 202 THE JILACK DEATH, AXB AFTERWAUDS. [1348 goods and me
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