This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...brought to an end for lack of means to continue them. The Court of Star Chamber (an organization which practically dates from Henry VII) and the Court of High Com mission (originally created by Elizabeth to enforce the royal supremacy in the church) dealt relentlessly with those who opposed the king's will. Sir John ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...brought to an end for lack of means to continue them. The Court of Star Chamber (an organization which practically dates from Henry VII) and the Court of High Com mission (originally created by Elizabeth to enforce the royal supremacy in the church) dealt relentlessly with those who opposed the king's will. Sir John Eliot, one of the leaders in the last Parliament, was imprisoned for his course there, and died in the Tower three and a half years later, a martyr to constitutional liberty, judges who were suspected of being unfriendly to the royal claims were dismissed. The king's need of funds, together with his determination to rule without a Parliament, caused him to rake up all sorts of obsolete rights of exacting feudal dues and fines, and to resort to other questionable means of raising money. The most important of these means was a new and arbitrary tax called "ship money." The right of the king, in time of war, to call upon the maritime counties to furnish ships for the defense of the realm was unquestioned. Charles now, in time of peace, converted this right of ship service into a money tax, and extended it over all the counties of England. By levying the ship money in three successive years, he also showed that he meant to make the tax permanent. A rich and patriotic man named John Hampden refused to pay the tax and contested the king's right to levy it. The result was the Ship Money Case, tried in 1637. The decision of the judges was against Hampden; but the publicity of the trial enabled Hampden's lawyers to get their arguments before the people almost as completely as they could have done in a Parliament. The result was greatly to strengthen the opposition to the government. In spite of the economic prosperity of these years, English di...
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