Extracts from the Speech of Oliver St John in the Ship-money Case - http://www.constitution.org/eng/conpur021.htm A speech in John Hampden's defence from Gardiner "Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution". A classic denunciation of arbitrary taxation.
Act Declaring the Illegality of Ship-money. - http://www.constitution.org/eng/conpur036.htm 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.
The John Hampden Society - http://www.johnhampden.org/ A society devoted to the study of 17th-century Parliamentarian John Hampden, who famous for resisting the Ship Money tax.
Ship Money List - http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/WIL/ship1635.html 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.
Ship Money - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_money An article in the open source encyclopaedia, Wikipedia, discussing the history and constitutional implications of Ship Money.
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