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The Collection of Ship-Money in the Reign of Charles I

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2009

M. D. Gordon
Affiliation:
(formerly of Girton College, Cambridge)

Extract

The subject of this paper is the financial aspect of shipmoney; that is, it attempts to discuss the following questions. How much money was actually levied on the ship-money writs? How was that money spent? How was it assessed and collected? As a form of direct taxation how does ship-money compare with a subsidy? The materials on which it is based are mainly the Audit Office Declared Accounts, the assessments in the Council Register, and the letters of instructions sent with the King's writs by the council to the sheriffs. These letters were substantially the same from year to year, with considerable additions dealing with points which had arisen in the course of the collections.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1910

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page 154 note 1 The account for this year is not complete, as it is concerned only with the accounts of Sir William Russell, who was not appointed treasurer of the fund until March 24, 1635. Before this time money had been imprested to the victualler of the navy and spent on the fleet. This account can, however, be supplemented by a short statement in the Council Register for December 23, 1635, signed by Cottington, Coke, and Windebank, the substance of which is as follows:

The charge of the ship-money fleet of 1635, including the 10 additional ships which were ordered to re-enforce the 15 ships originally specified in the writs, £113,896 9s.; of this—advanced out of the Exchequer, £23,323 18s. 4d.; paid out of the money received from the counties upon the second Issue of writs, £7,905.

page 154 note 2 ‘Money received of Sir John Heydon Lieutenant of the Ordnance collected within the precinct of the Trinity Minories by H.M.'s direccion towards setting forth of a shipp … of 500 touns.’

page 154 note 3 ‘Allowance of 3d. in the £ as poundage money on all moneys … issued, except such as he shall pay by warrant to the officers of the Ordnance and Surveyors of Marine victualls.’

page 154 note 4 Declared 1639.

page 154 note 5 Declared 15th Sep. 1639.

page 154 note 6 Declared 27th May 1640.

page 154 note 7 (Not declared). C. R.—30th September 1640. Mr. Geo. Bingley ordered to audit the ship-money accounts.

page 154 note 8 (Not declared).

page 154 note 9 (Not declared).

page 154 note 10 Lent to paymaster of Berwick.

page 154 note 11 Should be £124 19s.d.

page 155 note 1 Declared Account A. O. .

page 157 note 1 The spelling of the names of places has been modernised owing to the variation in the Council Register from year to year.

page 157 note 2 Bristol abated to 1200 on petition (Declared Account).

page 157 note 3 Bristol abated to 800 on petition (Declared Account).

page 159 note 1 In and after 1635, not including the close.

page 159 note 2 In and after 1635, not on the church.

page 159 note 3 Abated on petition to £3000—Declared Account.

page 161 note 1 ‘Wenlock and liberty’ by writs of 1636 and afterwards.

page 161 note 2 ‘citie and countie’ in writs of 1634.

page 162 note 1 Corrected to £447 2 8 in the A. O. Declared Account.

page 162 note 2 Corrected to £1117 6 8 in the A. O. Declared Account.

page 162 note 3 Corrected to £713 10 0 in the A. O. Declared Account.