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  • Act Declaring the Illegality of Ship-money.: An Act passed, just before the start of the Civil War, making Ship Money illegal. Widely interpreted as a victory for Parliament over the King.
  • Extracts from the Speech of Oliver St John in the Ship-money Case: A speech in John Hampden's defence from Gardiner "Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution". A classic denunciation of arbitrary taxation.
  • Sandwich Collects Ship Money: Ship Money is still collected in England, the Cinque Port of Sandwich in Kent.
  • Ship Money: An article in the open source encyclopaedia, Wikipedia, discussing the history and constitutional implications of Ship Money.
  • Ship Money List: An article from the Swindon Advertiser of 1885 with a short essay on the importance of ship money, and an explanation on how it was assessed and the Ship Money lists of Wiltshire.
  • The John Hampden Society: A society devoted to the study of 17th-century Parliamentarian John Hampden, who famous for resisting the Ship Money tax.
  • Two Proposals for Raising Money by Extraordinary Means, c. 1627: An article exploring the constitutional strains brought about by the refusal of Parliament to vote subsidies in the 1620s leading to the infamous "Ship Money", a tax designed by Charles I to circumvent Parliament.


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