It is possible that the scheme was, to some extent, a forced loan, something that tied unwilling landowners to the imperial treasure in order to make them supply some funds to civic expenses.
32.
The Councils imposed a forced loan of one hundred million francs, to be paid immediately according to graduated scale by all of those who paid a property tax of over three hundred francs.
33.
A commissioner in Shropshire for the forced loan of 1626, Turner was subsequently king's solicitor before the Council of the Marches from 1627 to 1637, and a master in recorder of Shrewsbury in 1638.
34.
Because the merged utility here would pay reduced taxes, as it deducted its high debt payments, electricity rates would include what amounts to a forced loan from customers to the utility at zero interest.
35.
While contributing thirty horse to the Scottish expedition in 1638, and lending the king ?0, 000 in 1639, he gave no support to the forced loan levied upon the city in the latter year.
36.
On 19 September following, however, he again appeared on a charge of having behaved stubbornly towards the Bishop of Gloucester, and in January 1557 he was in trouble for refusing to pay a forced loan.
37.
It floated a loan for the government of Gen . Flores in December, and when it suffered another run in 1865, the government suspended specie payments for the two note-issuing banks and demanded forced loans.
38.
In November 1627, the test case in the King's Bench, the " Five Knights'Case ", found that the king had a prerogative right to imprison without trial those who refused to pay the forced loan.
39.
Regarding economic woes, debilitating wage cuts following economic stagnation were referred to as " blows in the face of imperialism ", while forced loans were called " voluntary contributions to the building of socialism ".
40.
This act also forbade ship money without Parliament's consent, declared unlawful both fines in destraint of knighthood and forced loans, severely cut back monopolies, and abolished the Courts of Star Chamber and Triennial Act 1641.
