ABSTRACT
The king, he said, requested the advice, counsel and assistance of parliament in consequence of news received by him of the preparations made by the king
SECTION III. From the Peasant Insurrection, 1380, to the end of the
Hundred Years' Far, 1453. Return to the old form of tax. The landowners take the whole burden
AFTER the failure of the attempt made to introduce into this country a new system of taxation by means of poll taxes upon a French model, the fifteenth and tenth continued to be, in practice, the form of taxation ordinarily used. But in 1382 the landowners, on account of the poverty of the country, took upon themselves the whole burden of a fifteenth and tenth, in the following manner. The sums levied on the occasion of the last fifteenth and tenth were to be assessed, in the various districts, upon the landowners only-' dukes, earls, barons, bannerets, knights, esquires, and all other secular lords of manors, townships, and other places '— in respect of the total amount of their crops and cattle, or the total amount of the profits of all their demesne lands, in every township or other place; the clergy
SECTION IV. Direct Taxation during the Wars of the Roses.
