To defray the war costs it was determined to levy a poundage tax on all Hanseatic exported goods.
The poundage toll, instituted to cover martial expenses, was at once abolished; credit and debit carefully balanced.
Once more recourse was had to a poundage tax to raise supplies and thirty-five large vessels with three thousand men were sent to sea in 1394.
The very feel of the man in the saddle was different, not so much in poundage as in a certain exquisite balance which he maintained but the pause lasted no longer than a second after the welcome daylight flashed on the eyes of Alcatraz.
He proposed that there should be a complete revision of work and wages; that postmasters should be paid on fixed salaries; and that all perquisites, with the exception of a poundage on the sale of postage-stamps, should be given up.
The Commons denied the right of the King to levy tonnage and poundagewithout their consent.
The King had continued, in direct violation of the Petition of Right, to raise tonnage and poundage without the consent of Parliament.
Those who levied tonnage and poundage were branded with the same epithet.
The inquiries and debates concerning tonnage and poundage went hand in hand with these theological or metaphysical controversies.
Tonnage and poundage continued to be levied by the royal authority alone.
They were preparing a remonstranace against the levying of tonnage and poundage without consent of parliament.
They then openly asserted, that the levying of tonnage and poundage without consent of parliament, was a palpable violation of the ancient liberties of the people, and an open infringement of the petition of right, so lately granted.
The pretensions with regard to tonnage and poundage were revived, and with certain assurance of success, by the commons.
Sir John Elliot framed a remonstrance against levying tonnage and poundage without consent of parliament, and offered it to the clerk to read.
The parliament did not grant the duty of tonnage and poundage to Henry VIII.
Tonnage and poundage on goods exported and imported shall be taken to provide safeguard of the seas for such goods.
He expected tonnage and poundage for the Navy for life, as was the custom.
Her bare arms tapered from fine shoulders to small wrists, and if she followed Juno rather than Psyche in her luxurious molding she was pliant as a willow, carried her shapely poundage with an effect of slimness.
But for her darker colors the girl with her shapely poundage might easily have been one of their lusty daughters.
Doyle says that the honest man at Smithfield had poundage of him as well as from the grazier, so that he acted in a double capacity.
The king sent the Commons a message, desiring them to proceed to vote the tonnage and poundage without delay, this having been neglected by the Parliament in the last Session; but the House insisted on going first into the grievances.
The Commons having granted the king six subsidies, and tonnage and poundage for the year, he now proposed to proceed to Scotland to hold a Parliament.
He was beyond all indignant at the grant of tonnage andpoundage for only one year, seeing that his predecessors from the time of Henry VI.
I see it is all our heart's desire to expedite the Bill of tonnage andpoundage in due time.
Though he had admitted, in granting this Petition, that no kind of duty could be imposed without consent of Parliament, he now sought to except the tonnage and poundagefrom this condition.
To raise money for the prosecution of the war against Spain, he ordered the duties of tonnage and poundage to be levied, notwithstanding they were not voted by the Peers.
These assertions were in direct contradiction to his declaration in that very speech which we have already quoted, that the tonnage and poundage was a thing that Parliament had nothing to do with.
The duties of tonnage and poundage were generally granted to the king by one and the same act of parliament, and were called the subsidy of tonnage and poundage.
A poundage, indeed, was to be paid to the king upon such exportation; but all grain was rated so low in the book of rates, that this poundage amounted only, upon wheat to 1s.
The subsidy ofpoundage having continued for so long a time at one shilling in the pound, or at five per cent.
They were subjected, indeed, to a small poundage duty, amounting only to threepence in the hundred weight, upon their re-exportation.
It was, besides, a foreign manufacture, and must have paid some duty, the ancient custom of tonnage and poundage at least, to the king.
And as tonnage and poundage had been once for all granted to the King, he thought it appropriate and permissible to raise the custom-house duties as an administrative measure.
It arose upon the same matter which had caused such grave embarrassment to the Earl of Salisbury, the unlimited exercise of the right of levying tonnage and poundage entirely at the discretion of the government.
If tonnage and poundage already belonged to the King, he did not need to have it granted him.
The question of tonnage and poundage came before the House while it was labouring under the irritation kindled by this discussion.
Proceeding on the principle that the collection of tonnage and poundage was a breach of the constitution, preparations were made for calling to account the officers engaged in this process.
The Lower House was now disinclined, both on principle and under the painful excitement of the moment, to renew the grant on these terms: it therefore conferred the right to tonnage and poundage on the King only for a year.
For they maintained that the collection of tonnage and poundage was as much a breach of the fundamental principles of the realm, as the raising of any other tax that had not been granted would be.
In this it was said, that whoever furthered Popery or Arminianism, whoever collected or helped to collect tonnage and poundage before it was granted, or who even paid it, the same was an enemy of the English realm and of English liberty.
The controversy about tonnage and poundage coincided with this quarrel.
As the customs had not been fixed by the advice of Parliament, and tonnage and poundage had not been regularly granted at all, some London merchants had refused to satisfy the Custom House.
Tonnage [tax per ton] and poundage [tax per pound] on goods exported and imported shall be taken to provide safeguard of the seas for such goods.
From about 1413, tunnage on wine and poundage on merchandise were duties on goods of merchants which were regularly granted by Parliament to the king for life for upkeep of the Navy.
For instance, tunnage and poundage were appropriated for naval defenses.
The Instrument of Government allowed less Parliamentary control than had been given to the Long Parliament after the passing of the Triennial Act and the Tonnage and Poundage Act (see pp.
Now that the session was drawing to a close the Commons again proposed to grant Tonnage and Poundage for a year only.
In asserting the illegality of arbitrary detention, of compulsory loans, of tonnage and poundage levied without consent of parliament, they stood in defence of positive rights won by their fathers, the prescriptive inheritance of Englishmen.
The grant of tonnage and poundage for the king's life, which from the time of Henry V.
They assert Henry to have received tonnage and poundage several years before it was vested in him by the legislature.
Hence they made their grant of tonnage andpoundage to last but for a year instead of the king's life, as had for two centuries been the practice; on which account the upper house rejected the bill.
They had even passed the usual bill granting tonnage and poundage for life, with certain reservations that gave the court offence, and which apparently they afterwards omitted.
The Commons granted a supply, but, contrary to precedent, voted tonnage and poundage for one year only.
Tonnage and poundage were granted to him for life.
This principle of allowing poundage to the king was in the highest degree inconvenient.
He got it in the shape of tonnage and poundageupon all sorts of goods, and when money was not to be had he took property to the full value of the claim he had upon it.
The principle of poundage was applied to everything, even in quantities less than a pound, and he would, even on a few ounces of sugar, sack his share of the saccharine.
At the reopening of the Session indeed the king met the Commons with a proposal that they should grant him tonnage and poundage and pass silently over what had been done by his officers.
Both practices in fact went on as before, and the goods of merchants who refused to pay tonnage and poundage were seized as of old.
Popular feeling was so much on the side of the merchants that when parliament met Charles publicly renounced all claim to tonnage and poundage as a right.
