Note (46) — Chapter II
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The exact value of the document commonly known as the statute “De Tallagio non concedendo” is discussed by Professor Stubbs, p. 487. It is perhaps safest to look on it, like many of the earlier collections of laws, not indeed as an actual statute, but as good evidence of a principle which, from the time of the Confirmation of the Charters, has been universally received. The words are—
“Nullum tallagium vel auxilium per nos vel hæredes nostros de cetero in regno nostro imponatur seu levetur, sine voluntate et assensu communi archiepiscoporum, episcoporum et aliorum prælatorum, comitum, baronum, militum, burgensium, et aliorum liberorum hominum in regno nostro.” This, it will be seen, is the same provision which I have already quoted (see above, Note 36) from the Great Charter of John, but which was left out in the Charter in the form in which it was confirmed by Henry the Third. See Stubbs, 330, 332, 336.