363.
*** Page 17, 18.
**** Page 39.
***** Page 47.
****** Page 52, 53, 57, 58.
******* Page 69.
******** Page 76.
********* Page 101.
********** Page 138.
The king openly avowed and maintained this power of levying taxes at pleasure.

At one time, he replied to the remonstrance made by the commons against it, that the impositions had been exacted from great necessity, and had been assented to by the prelates, earls, barons, and some of the commons;[*] at another, that he would advise with his council.[**] When the parliament desired that a law might be enacted for the punishment of such as levied these arbitrary impositions he refused compliance.[***] * Page 152.
** Cotton, p.53.He repeats the same answer in p.60.

"Some of the commons" were such as he should be pleased to consult with.
*** Cotton, p.

57.
In the subsequent year, they desired that the king might renounce this pretended prerogative; but his answer was, that he would levy no taxes without necessity for the defence of the realm, and where he reasonably might use that authority.[*] This incident passed a few days before his death; and these were, in a manner, his last words to his people.

It would seem that the famous charter or statute of Edward I., "de tallagio non concedendo," though never repealed, was supposed to have already lost by age all its authority.
These facts can only show the practice of the times: for as to the right, the continual remonstrances of the commons may seem to prove that it rather lay on their side: at least, these remonstrances served to prevent the arbitrary practices of the court from becoming an established part of the constitution.