Wealth and want;: Or, Taxation, as influencing private riches and public liberty

by David Urquhart

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 ...The same Parliament introduce an Excise. Prerogatives for the same end and purpose, that with the profits of them he should defend himself and his people in times of danger, of which his Majestic is, and always hath been, in actual possession, since his accesse to the Crown. " For the defence of the kingdom, his Majestic hath the profits of wardships, liveries, primer seisins, marriages, reliefs, fines for alienation, customs, mines, wrecks, treasure trove, escheats, forfeitures, and diverse others the like casual profits, that by these he may be enabled to defend the kingdom, and that he enjoying them, his subjects might enjoy their estates under his protection, free from taxes and impositions for defence. Therefore it is declared 14 E. 3, ch. 1. Thatall the profits arising ofan aidthen granted to the King by his people; and of wards, marria es, customs, escheats, and other profits riseing of the realm otgEnglund, shall be expended on the wars in Scotland, France and Gascoigne, and no places elsewhere during the wars. And the Lords and Commons, in Richard the Second's time (knowing the law to he so) did (as appears by the Parliament Rolls, 6 Rich. Il_ m. 42) passe a petition, that the King should live of his own revenues, and that the wards, marriages, reliefs, forfeitures, and other profits of the Crown might be kept to be spent in the wars for the defence of the kingdom. "III. If the said Tenures and casual profits rising by his Prerogative, will not serve for defence, but more help is necessary, by the fundamental lawes and constitutions of this kingdoin, his Majestic is entrusted witha power to summon Parliament as often as he pleases, for defence of himself and his people, when his ordinary revenues will not serve the turn. And there...

111 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1972

About the author

David Urquhart was a Scottish diplomat, writer and politician, serving as a Member of Parliament from 1847 to 1852.

In 1827, Urquhart joined the nationalist cause in the Greek War of Independence. Seriously injured, he spent the next few years championing the Greek cause in letters to the British government, a self-promotion that entailed his appointment in 1831 to Sir Stratford Canning's mission to Istanbul to settle the border between Greece and Turkey.