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Landmark Colonial Tax Debate and Calicoes Petitions
The session records Dec 4 to Dec 7 show petitions against Calicoes being referred to committees, discussions on funds deficits and a new writ for Bishops Caple, plus a land tax of three shillings in the pound proposed for 1520. A Lords bill on the Peerage of Great Britain faced a heated committee debate led by Lords Powles and Hotham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Callicoes
Grand Committee
His
Woolf
Kangom
Tran Pee
Bishops- Caple
Salon
Richard Hawes
Commissioners of Excise
Fune
Lords
William Powles
Charles Hotham
Lord William Powles
Coll. Morton
Hampden
Cragge
Plummer
M. Aifisbie
Serjeant Pengelly
Mr. Hungerford