In the kingdom of Great Britain, where all the ostentatious apparatus of monarchy is to be provided for, not above a fifteenth part of the annual income of the nation is appropriated to the class of expenses last mentioned; the other fourteen fifteenths are absorbed in the payment of the interest of debts contracted for carrying on the wars in which that country has been engaged, and in the maintenance of fleets and armies. ❋ Unknown (2010)
To talk or not to talk, to hear but refuse to listen, to see but ignore the facts is not a Shakespearian quote from the fifteenths century but a style of governing. ❋ Unknown (2008)
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Howbeit of late the officers of our lord the king, in the foresaid ward of Doue-gate, constrained the marchants aforesaid to pay tallages, fifteenths, and other subsidies. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Whereupon the saide marchants prosecuted the matter before the Councel of our soueraign lord the king, insomuch that they were released from paying afterward any such tallages, fifteenths, and subsidies. ❋ Unknown (2003)
London, to pay fifteenths, tallages, and other subsidies contrary to the liberties of their charter. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Welford, Robert Lucas, John Hadley, John Northampton, John Organ, and John Sely, were appointed collectors of the two fifteenths. — ❋ Unknown (N/A)
On the 17th December this parliament granted the king two fifteenths and two tenths. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
A grant of two fifteenths and two tenths was immediately made to assist him in his expedition by parliament; whilst the City contributed a "great benevolence," the fellowship of Drapers contributing more than any other fellowship, and every alderman subscribing, whether he wished it or no, the sum of £200. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
(He will send a beautiful chromo of it -- seventeen and a fourteenth by eighteen and thirteen fifteenths of an inch -- life size, -- and a copy of the paper for nine years, for thirty-four dollars and a quarter -- postage paid.) ***** ❋ Various (N/A)
In 1546 Henry IV. granted the prior and convent exemption from fifteenths, tenths and subsidies, in return for prayer for himself and his queen in every mass sung at the high altar. ❋ Various (N/A)
And how can a quarrel arise when a dissecter of the emotions is close at hand to say where the divergence of opinion or interest began? and how can a fit of jealousy be provoked in the case of a person who will split up her affections into fifteen parts, give ten-fifteenths to her children, three-fifteenths to her parents, and the remainder to her husband? ❋ Various (N/A)
In 1378 he was appointed one of the collectors of the tax of two-fifteenths. ❋ James Root Hulbert (1926)
When he proclaimed the peace he was likewise to publish a general pardon to privateers who came in and submitted within a reasonable time, of all offences committed since June 1660, assuring to them the possession of their prize-goods (except the tenths and the fifteenths which were always reserved to the crown as a condition of granting commissions), and offering them inducements to take up planting, trade, or service in the royal navy. ❋ Clarence Henry Haring (1922)
It was only in respect to extraordinary taxes -- "subsidies" and "tenths and fifteenths" -- that ❋ Frederic Austin Ogg (1914)
Their primary business was the voting of supplies and, the principle being that a tax ought to be conceded by those who would be called upon to pay it, the natural course was for the lords to grant their scutages and aids, the commoners their tenths and fifteenths, and the clergy their subsidies, apart. ❋ Frederic Austin Ogg (1914)
Henry demanded a grant of three-fifteenths, about 113,000 pounds, but thanks to More's protests the Commons reduced the sum to 30,000. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Who ere ever he had been reader in Court was in the latter time of King Henry the Seventh made a Burgess in the Parliament, wherein there were by the King demanded (as I have heard it reported) about three-fifteenths for the marriage of his eldest daughter, that then should be the Scottish Queen. ❋ Unknown (1909)
Taxation on the whole was remarkably light during Tudor times; the tenths, fifteenths and subsidies had become fixed sums which did not increase with the national wealth, and indeed brought in less and less to the royal exchequer ❋ Unknown (1908)
[N.W.A]. "[Clockin] much [paper] on the first and fifteenth" ❋ Bobby R (2005)
Dude, my [Asian] [buddy] was able to get to fifteenth base yesterday! I tried and couldn't [fit]. ❋ Thefixer551 (2009)
Girl 1: why are you buying [lube]?
Girl 2: because it’s June Fifteenth and [idk] what [Jake] wants yet ❋ AlexismfTexas (2019)
