Ship Money Act 1640 facts for kids
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| Long title | An Act for declaring unlawfull and void the late proceedings touching Ship money and for vacating of all Records and Processe concerning the same. |
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| Royal Assent | 7 August 1641 |
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| Repealing legislation | Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1969 |
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The Ship Money Act 1640 (16 Cha. 1. c. 14) was an Act of the Parliament of England. It outlawed the medieval tax called ship money, a tax the sovereign could levy (on coastal towns) without parliamentary approval. Ship money was intended for use in war, but by the 1630s was being used to fund everyday government expenses of King Charles I, thereby subverting Parliament.
The whole Act, so far as unrepealed, was repealed by section 1 of, and Part I of the Schedule to, the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1969.
Section 2
This section, from "it is" to first "aforesaid" was repealed by section 1 of, and Part I of the Schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1888.
See also
- Ship money
- R v Hampden (1637) 3 Howell State Trials 825
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