 | Robert Vaughan - 1831 - 532 pages
...an effort to raise money in contempt of this enactment provoked loud murmurs, the people saying, " If men should give their goods by a commission, then were it worse than the taxes of France, and so England should be bond, and not free." — Halle, fol. 138. And the king considered it prudent to... | |
 | 1837 - 704 pages
...elusion, all people execrated the cardinal as a subverter of the ' laws and liberties of England. For, if men should give their ' goods by a commission, then were it worse than the taxes of ' France; and so England would be bond, and not free.' Wolsey summoned the Lord Mayor and Common-council before him,... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler - 1837 - 486 pages
...vol. ip 425. f Ellis' Letters, vol. i. Second Series, pp. 326, 327. 192 DISCONTENT IN ENGLAND. [1525. their goods by a commission, then were it worse than the taxes of France ; and so England would be bond and not free."* A remarkable letter of Archbishop Warham, addressed to Wolsey,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1839 - 932 pages
...conclusion, all men execrated the cardinal as subverter of the laws and liberty of England. For, they said, if men should give their goods by a commission,...then were it worse than the taxes of France ; and so England would be bond, and not free.1'* Archbishop Warham, the old minister of Henry VII., and formerly... | |
 | Robert Vaughan - 1840 - 506 pages
...an effort to raise money in contempt of this prohibition led the people generally to remark, that " if men should give their goods by a commission, then were it worse than the taxes of France, and so England should be bond and not free." So loud indeed were the complaints occasioned by this proceeding,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 516 pages
...stubborn and imperious spirit. The people, we are told, said, that if they were to be treated thus, ' then were it worse than the taxes of France ; and England should be bond, and not free.' The county of Suffolk rose in arms. The king prudently yielded to an opposition which, if he had persisted,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1841 - 638 pages
...conclusion, all men execrated the cardinal as subverter of the laws and liberty of England. For, they said, if men should give their goods by a commission,...then were it worse than the taxes of France ; and so England would be bond, and not free."'* Archbishop Warham, the old minister of Henry VIL, and formerly... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 520 pages
...his stubborn and imperious spirit. The people, we are told, said that, if they were treated thus, " then were it worse than the taxes of France; and England should be bond, and not free." The county of Suffolk rose in arms. The king prudently yielded to an opposition which, if he had persisted,... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1845 - 556 pages
...conclusion, all men execrated the cardinal as subverter of the laws and liberty of England. For, they said, if men should give their goods by a commission,...then were it worse than the taxes of France ; and so Ensrland would be bond, and not free."* Archbishop Warham, the old minister of Henry VII., and formerly... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pages
...his stubborn and imperious spirit The people, we are told, said that if they were to be taxed thus, " then were it worse than the taxes of France, and England should be bond, and not free." The county of Suffolk rose in arms. The king prudently yielded to an opposition which, if he had persisted,... | |
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The people, we are told, said that, if they were treated thus, " then were it worse than the taxes of France; and England should be bond, and not free. 
