Annals of King's Chapel from the Puritan age of New England to the present day . tonote that the only public memorial here preserved of the con-nection of the Massachusetts men with the resistance to the StarChamber, in which John Hampden was the most conspicuousleader, is in the beautiful monument still existing in KingsChapel to Samuel Vassall, a brother of the early colonist, oneof the original proprietors of the lands of this country, a steadyand undaunted asserter of the Liberties of England in was the first who boldly refused to submit to the tax of Ton-nage and Poundage, an unco
Annals of King's Chapel from the Puritan age of New England to the present day . tonote that the only public memorial here preserved of the con-nection of the Massachusetts men with the resistance to the StarChamber, in which John Hampden was the most conspicuousleader, is in the beautiful monument still existing in KingsChapel to Samuel Vassall, a brother of the early colonist, oneof the original proprietors of the lands of this country, a steadyand undaunted asserter of the Liberties of England in was the first who boldly refused to submit to the tax of Ton-nage and Poundage, an unconstitutional claim of the Crownarbitrarily imposed: for which (to the ruin of his family) hisgoods were seized and his person imprisoned by the Star Cham-ber Court. He was chosen to represent the City of London intwo successive Parliaments which met April 13 and Nov. 3, Parliament in July, 1641, voted him ^10,445 I2S- 2C^-for his damages, and resolved that he should be further con- 1 Palfreys History of New England traces this connection with great interestand
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