Note 1 — PART II HISTORICAL STUDIES (continued 2)
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Great importance is rightly assigned to the first instances of 'a constitutional opposition to a royal demand for money',1 of which the two alleged earliest cases are 'the opposition of St Thomas to the king's manipulation of the danegeld [1163], and the refusal by St Hugh of Lincoln to furnish money for Richard's war in France [1197]'.2 These two precedents are always classed together: Dr Stubbs writes of St Hugh's action: