They were eager to approve the bill and ship money to the military, which has warned of scaled-back operations beginning in July unless it can get the funds.
42.
Finch presided over the trial of John Hampden, who resisted the payment of ship money, and was chiefly responsible for the decision of the judges that ship-money was constitutional.
43.
Opposition to ship money steadily grew, but the 12 common law judges of England declared that the tax was within the king's prerogative, though some of them had reservations.
44.
Gell's year as High Sheriff was politically important because one of his duties was to raise the tax known as Ship Money, levied for the first time in 1635.
45.
In 1637 Claypole was summoned as a gentleman before the Star Chamber, and the attorney-general was ordered to begin a prosecution against him for refusing to pay ship money.
46.
In 1641 he was one of the counsel for Sir John Bramston the elder and Sir Robert Berkeley, two of the judges impeached by the Long parliament over ship money.
47.
In the following months, ship money, fines in distraint of knighthood and excise without parliamentary consent were declared unlawful, and the Courts of Star Chamber and High Commission were abolished.
48.
In 1638, notwithstanding his recent experiences, he was one of the chief leaders in his county of the resistance to ship money, though it would appear that he subsequently made submission.
49.
The coastal counties were unhappy with it since Charles was collecting the Ship Money tax during a time of peace and since he wasn't using it really to fund the navy.
50.
The Long Parliament began on 3 November and Walter Devereux served on the Ship Money Committee and was named one of the Commissioners for Staffordshire in the Scandalous Ministers Act.
