 And afterwards, when the nation had been accustomed to it for a series of years, the succeeding champions of liberty boldly and openly declared, " the impost " of excise to be the most easy and indifferent levy that could "be laid upon the people":" and...  The Dictionary of English History - Page 445edited by - 1884 - 1119 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 686 pages
...series of years, the succeeding champions of liberty boldly and openly declared, " the impost " of excise to be the most easy and indifferent levy that could "be laid upon the people":" and accordingly continued it during the whole usurpation. Upon king Charles's return, it having then... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 858 pages
...for a series of years, the succeeding champions of liberty boldly and openly declared " the impost of excise to be the most easy and indifferent levy that could be laid upon the people ;" and accordingly continued it during the whole usurpation. Upon King Charles's return, it having... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 660 pages
...a series of years, the succeeding champions of liberty boldly and openly declared " the impost of " excise to be the most easy and indifferent levy that could be " laid upon the people n :" and accordingly continued it during the whole usurpation. Upon king Charles's return, it having... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1825 - 572 pages
...a series of years, the succeeding champions of liberty boldly and openly declared " the impost of " excise to be the most easy and indifferent levy that could be " laid upon the people " i" and accordingly continued it during the whole usurpation. Upon king Charles's return, it having... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1836 - 694 pages
...a series of years, the succeeding champions of liberty boldly and openly declared, " the impost of excise to be the most easy and indifferent levy that could be laid upon the people (n);" and accordingly continued it during the whole usurpation. Upon King Charles's return, it having... | |
 | William Blackstone, James Stewart - Civil rights - 1839 - 556 pages
...Car II. 12 Car. II c.23. succeeding champions of liberty boldly and openly declared, " the impost of excise to be the most easy and indifferent " levy that could be laid upon the people :"& and accordingly continued it during the whole usurpation. Upon king Charles's return, it having... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch, John Ramsay M'Culloch - Great Britain - 1839 - 760 pages
...been accustomed to it for a few years, the parliament declared, in 1619, that the impost of excise was the most easy and indifferent levy that could be laid upon the people. It was placed on a new footing at the Restoration ; and notwithstanding Mr. Justice Blackstone says,... | |
 | Encyclopaedias, William Waterston - Commerce - 1843 - 724 pages
...л originated had passed away. In 1649, the Parliament declared that " the impost of the excise was the most easy and indifferent levy that could be laid upon the people;" and by the 12th Charles Uc 24. it was granted as part of the revenues of the crown. The malt dutv was... | |
 | Thomas Chisholm Anstey - Constitutional history - 1845 - 484 pages
...the convenient Pretext for its First Introduction, null and void. It was boldly and openly proclaimed to be, "the most easy and indifferent Levy that could be laid upon the People;" and, as such, it was continued throughout the Period of the Commonwealth, and down to the Restoration... | |
 | 1846 - 698 pages
...from Holland by the Puritan rebels, and voted by the Regicide Parliament, in the memorable year l649, to be ' the most easy and indifferent levy that could be laid upon the people,' Mr. Justice Blackstone says truly of the Excise, ' that from its first original to the present time... | |
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