I shall not now enter into the justness of this character of Mr. Hampden, to whose brave stand against the illegal demand of ship-money we owe our present liberties; but I mention it to you as the character, which with the alteration of one single word, GOOD, instead of MISCHIEF, I would have you aspire to, and use your utmost endeavors to deserve. ❋ Unknown (2005)
The tax that focused hatred on Charles was ship-money, by which a writ issued in 1635 extended to the whole country a tax hitherto levied only on seaboard towns. ❋ Unknown (2001)
He resisted the imposition of ship-money, and died in a skirmish at Chalgrove during the ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
Does any one now condemn Hampden for refusing to pay "ship-money?" ❋ E. N. [Editor] Elliott (N/A)
The spirit which now resists your taxation in America, is the same which formerly opposed loans, benevolences, and ship-money in England: the same spirit which called all England on its legs, and by the Bill of Rights vindicated the constitution; the same principle which established the great fundamental and essential maxim of our liberties, that no subject of England shall be taxed but by his own consent. ❋ Edward Farr (N/A)
The long and stubborn opposition to the exaction of ship-money, 'Voted illegal and entered _nullo contradicente_,' is given. ❋ Rosalind Northcote (N/A)
And this was the first appearance in the present reign of ship-money -- a taxation which had once been imposed by Elizabeth, on a great emergency, but which, revived and carried further by Charles, produced the most violent discontent. ❋ Various (N/A)
Ministerial rank worked a wonderful change; so much so that Noye was actually the originator of the ship-money tax which played so large a share in embroiling the nation. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
He resisted ship-money and the tax unlawfully imposed on tonnage and poundage. ❋ John Sherman (N/A)
The merchant, with forked beard and Flaundrish beaver hat, discourses learnedly of taxes and ship-money, and was doubtless drawn from an existing original, the type of ❋ Henry Coppee (N/A)
It forbade the levying of "ship-money" and other irregular taxes. ❋ Hutton Webster (N/A)
'The Lord Falkland took notice of the business of ship-money, and very sharply mentioned the lord Finch as the principal promoter of it, and that, being then ❋ Various (N/A)
In 1636, John Hampden became universally known by his intrepid opposition to the ship-money, as an illegal tax. ❋ Various (N/A)
Nothing is known of the trial, not even the charge, but it is pretty certain that, in common with several other justices at that time, he had showed 'a want of "forwardness"'in collecting ship-money. ❋ Rosalind Northcote (N/A)
It is the same spirit that refused ship-money to Charles I., and tea-money to George III. ❋ Various (N/A)
The demand for "ship-money" aroused much opposition, and John Hampden, a wealthy squire of Buckinghamshire, refused to pay the twenty shillings levied on his estate. ❋ Hutton Webster (N/A)
They might assert that Hampden would have done better if he had paid the ship-money and had taught the Stuarts their lesson peaceably; that William of Orange committed a crime when he did not put his life and his sword into the hands of ❋ Various (N/A)
No doubt ship-money was necessary, and it was the patriotic thing to give it up, and no doubt the same applies to men for the Army: but when it came to the principle of the King taking money without the consent of ❋ Unknown (N/A)
-- Among the illegal taxes levied during this period of tyranny was a species known as ship-money, so called from the fact that in early times the kings, when the realm was in danger, called upon the sea-ports and maritime counties to contribute ships and ship - material for the public service. ❋ Philip Van Ness Myers (N/A)
Hampden refused to pay his twenty shillings ship-money, and took the matter to court, claiming that ship-money was illegal taxation. ❋ Carlton J. H. Hayes (1923)
