During times of arbitrary taxation the crown had set tallages alike upon its chartered boroughs and upon its tenants in demesne.
Tallages were imposed without consent of parliament in 17 E.
The prerogative of imposing tallagesat pleasure, unsparingly exercised by Henry III.
Besides the regular payments, which were in general not heavy, they were liable to tallages at the discretion of their lords.
We find from innumerable records that the king imposed tallages upon his demesne towns at discretion.
He set tallages sometimes, like his father, on his demesne towns, without assent of parliament.
By this charter, the king gave power to hear pleas and to collect such tallages as the mayor and aldermen may consider necessary for the maintenance of the city, but of the council of thirty-six there was no mention.
This charter contained a renunciation of the forests made by his predecessor, a grant to the ecclesiastics of a jurisdiction over their own vassals, and to the people in general an immunity from unjust tallages and exactions.
They were slaves to the king in the strictest sense; insomuch that, besides the various tallages and fines extorted from them, none succeeded to the inheritance of his father without the king's license and an heavy composition.
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