extraordinary revenue

• parliament permission needed
• laons:

  • raised quick in crisis
• feudal obligations:

  • special occassion
  • 1487 = £350 / 1507 = £6000
• parliamentary taxation grants:

  • fifteenth and tenths (rural and urban)
• clerical taxes:

  • parliamentary grant matched by church
• bonds and recognisances:

  • promise to pay and acknowledgement of debt
  • 1504 - 07 £200000promised but not all collected
• the French pension:

  • Edward IV
  • 159000 in £5000s yearly
  • bribed to rid of English soldiers
• benevolences:

  • no repaid
  • forced loans with threats of sanction
  • £8000 to fund war with France