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Select Documents of English Constitutional History
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Grant of Tunnage and Poundage, by Citizens and Burgesses Alone
(November, 1372. French text, 2 R. P. 310. Translation by Editors.2 Stubbs, 444, 557.)
14. AND after this leave was given to the knights of the shires to depart and to sue out their writs for their expenses. And so they departed.
15. But the citizen and burgesses who had come to the said parliament, were commanded to tarry for certain reasons, which citizens and burgesses, the next day after, having assembled before the prince and others, prelates and great men, in a chamber near the white chamber, it was shown to them, how the year before, grant had been made for a certain term for the safe and sure conduct of the ships and merchandises coming to this land by sea and passing from it, a subsidy, that is to say, on each tun of wine coming into this land, two shillings, and of each pound of merchandise of what sort soever, both that entering and that leaving, six pence, which term is already past. That they in consideration of the perils and mischiefs which might come to their ships and merchandises at the hands of enemies on the sea, should will to grant such a subsidy to endure for a year, for the said reasons. Which subsidy they granted to the king to take and to levy in the manner in which it was taken and levied in the year last past. And so they departed.
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Chicago: "Grant of Tunnage and Poundage, by Citizens and Burgesses Alone," Select Documents of English Constitutional History in Select Documents of English Constitutional History, ed. George Burton Adams (1851-1925) and Henry Morse Stephens (1857-1918) (New York: Macmillan Company, 1916), 132. Original Sources, accessed December 10, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=95S185Q9HAH8NAZ.
MLA: . "Grant of Tunnage and Poundage, by Citizens and Burgesses Alone." Select Documents of English Constitutional History, in Select Documents of English Constitutional History, edited by George Burton Adams (1851-1925) and Henry Morse Stephens (1857-1918), New York, Macmillan Company, 1916, page 132. Original Sources. 10 Dec. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=95S185Q9HAH8NAZ.
Harvard: , 'Grant of Tunnage and Poundage, by Citizens and Burgesses Alone' in Select Documents of English Constitutional History. cited in 1916, Select Documents of English Constitutional History, ed. , Macmillan Company, New York, pp.132. Original Sources, retrieved 10 December 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=95S185Q9HAH8NAZ.
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