Tonnage and Poundage
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the subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage · tonnage and poundage · Tonnage and Poundage Act · Tonnage and Poundage, and other impositions · customs subsidy and impost · our accustomed duties · the said subsidy · those duties
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1 expressionCustoms subsidy and impost“Tonnage and Poundage”1 mention
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660 (English)
specially ordered, that all those duties upon goods and merchandizes, called by the several names of customs subsidy and imposts, should be levied .
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The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
A customs revenue granted by Parliament to the monarch, whose levy without parliamentary consent by Charles I became a point of constitutional dispute.
Bates, a merchant who refused to pay the duty, on the ground that the King had no legal power to take it without a grant from Parliament, was declared to be in the wrong, and the Crown found itself, by the opinion of the Court which was constitutionally entrusted with the decision of such questions, entitled to raise, in addition to the Tonnage and Poundage—which, according to established preceden …
[xi] facts are to be traced in the legislation of the first months of the Long Parliament, especially in the Triennial Act, the Tonnage and Poundage Act, and the Acts for the abolition of the Star Chamber and the High Commission.
46), issued a commission for the levy of tonnage and poundage by prerogative (No.