Traditional Tax of Ship Money
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One specific source of contention between Charles II and the parliamentary party in the 1640s involved "ship money." This was a traditional tax based originally on feudal dues owed in wartime by coastal towns. As the name suggests, the original obligation was to build ships, which had subsequently been commuted to a money payment. Ship money had been long if sporadically collected from London and other coastal towns without great controversy. It became notorious only when Charles extended it to inland districts.The Crown had a sensible case to make for extending the obligation for support of the navy to the rest of the country. The navy was the bulwark of defense for England as a whole, as the Armada camp'ign had made cldar half a century earlier. All of England, inland and coastal districts alike, benefited likewise from the Navy's defense of trade. The restriction of the old obligation to coastal towns had perhaps been reasonable in the
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