10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHIP MONEY»
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War and Government in Britain, 1598-1650
Naval finance and the origins and development of ship money It is usually
assumed that the essential novelty of the ship money writs of the 1630s lay in the
extension of a traditional financial exaction from the maritime community to the
inland ...
Mark Charles Fissel, 1991
The best known and most profitable source of additional revenue was Ship
Money. It was a traditional levy that was made on coastal counties in times of
national danger to provide for their safety by equipping the navy, and had been
made use ...
3
Court Patronage and Corruption in Early Stuart England
102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 Quoted in
Gordon, “The Collection of Ship Money in the Reign of Charles I,” TRHS, 3rd ser,
Vol. 4 (1910), p. 153. Oxford, Bodleian, Duke Humfrey's Library, Bankes Mss ...
4
Merchants and Revolution: Commercial Change, Political ...
In 1637, John Hampden made his famous challenge to ship money before the
king's courts, defended by Oliver St. John. All these men were active members of
the Providence Island Company.88 Meanwhile, London citizens took their own, ...
5
Absolutism and Its Discontents: State and Society in ...
Fiscal opposition began to center on the fiscal expedient known as Ship Money.
Ship Money and the Escalation of Political Opposition Ship Money was perhaps
the most successful and the most contentious of all the fiscal expedients ...
6
A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for ...
147. Proceedings. in. the. Case. of. Ship-Money,. between. the. King. and. John.
Hampden,*. esq. in. the. Exchequer,. 13. Charles. I.-j*. a.d.. 1637. The Speech of
Thomas Lord Covehtbt, Lord Keeper of ihe Great Seal of England, by command ...
Thomas Jones Howell, William Cobbett, 1816
7
The Concise Encyclopedia of the Revolutions and Wars of ...
Ship Money • 493 Sherburn-in-Elmet 10.15.164 Pontefract Castle 7.20.1645
Yorkshire, near the Parliamentarian strongholds of the West Riding. After the van
captured the small force in the town, the main Royalist body somehow came to ...
Stephen C. Manganiello, 2004
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The Political Career of Oliver St. John, 1637-1649
No canons should be binding, argued Pym and St. John, unless approved by
Parliament.19 Although of lesser urgency when compared to Laud or Scotland as
a parliamentary grievance, Ship Money was still a burning issue in 1640. Thus ...
9
Royalists and Patriots: Politics and Ideology in England, ...
32 In the Short Parliament the condemnation of Ship Money was a major goal of
many members of the House of Commons. A wider objective was to rule out extra
-Parliamentary taxation of all kinds. To take away Ship Money, said Edward ...
10
The Stuart Age: England, 1603-1714
It now appeared to be a permanent land tax; in December 1635 the judges
declared that the king was acting legally, and successive new ship money writs
were issued in each year from 1636 to 1639. Moreover opposition to ship money
may ...
