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Benevolence (tax)

  • ... that, though they had been outlawed seven years earlier, in 1491 King Henry VII of England extracted £48,000 worth of "loving contributions" from his subjects? Chronology: "Benevolence". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.); Numbers: Virgoe, R. (January 1989). "The Benevolence of 1481". The English Historical Review. 104 (410), p. 38
    • ALT1:... that, despite the name, voluntary contributions have been described as "doubtless difficult, if not virtually impossible" to avoid? Source: Chrimes, S. B. (1972). Henry VII. University of California Press. p. 202

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