This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ...of the military order, the Templars ( 509), which had acquired wide estates and valuable possessions. He debased the coinage ( 592 n.) several times. He also changed many feudal services into money payments. In addition he created several new kinds of taxes. One of these was a tax on property.1 As the Church refused to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ...of the military order, the Templars ( 509), which had acquired wide estates and valuable possessions. He debased the coinage ( 592 n.) several times. He also changed many feudal services into money payments. In addition he created several new kinds of taxes. One of these was a tax on property.1 As the Church refused to pay taxes on church lands, Philip wanted the support of the people of France, especially the townsmen. He immediately called (1302 A.d.) an estates general, made up of representatives of the three estates, clergy, nobles, and commons, somewhat like the Parliament of England some years before.2 Although the estates general was consulted about taxes, it never grew into a tax-granting or a law-making body like the English Parliament ( 592). The Hundred Years' War The pecul-iar posi-tion of the king of Eng-land as a vassal of the king of France. 601. Causes of the Hundred Years' War.--The struggle of the French kings to increase the royal domain 1 When Philip tried to collect this tax upon church lands, Pope Boniface VIII refused to let the churchmen pay. Philip then made a law that no money should be exported from France. As this cut off all of the revenues that went from France to the Pope, Boniface agreed that the taxes should be paid, although a few years later he maintained that churchmen need not obey the laws of France. 2 This period was noted for its development of taxation and its popular assemblies. Besides the Parliament in England (1296), the estates general in France (1302), a Cortes had been organized in Castile as early as 1169. Later there were Parliaments in Ireland, Norway, and other countries. 1360 (By Peace of Bretigny, Aamttatne became English, TM r, ., 1492 Territory.) (rAe Limits of the English possess...
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