74.
******* Walsing.p.189, 190.
But there was no act of arbitrary power more frequently repeated in this reign, than that of imposing taxes without consent of parliament.

Though that assembly granted the king greater supplies than had ever been obtained by any of his predecessors, his great undertakings, and the necessity of his affairs, obliged him to levy still more; and after his splendid success against France had added weight to his authority, these arbitrary impositions became almost annual and perpetual.

Cotton's Abridgment of the records affords numerous instances of this kind, in the first[*] year of his reign, in the thirteenth year,[**] in the fourteenth,[***] in the twentieth,[****] in the twenty-first,[*****] in the twenty-second,[******] in the twenty fifth,[*******] in the thirty-eighth,[********] in the fiftieth,[*********] and in the fifty-first,[**********] * Tyrrel's Hist.

vol.iii.p.

554, from the records.
** Rymer, vol.iv.p.