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» Act Declaring the Illegality of Ship-money.
   An Act passed, just before the start of the Civil War, making Ship Money illegal. Widely interpreted as a victory for Parliament over the King.
   http://www.constitution.org/eng/conpur036.htm

» Extracts from the Speech of Oliver St John in the Ship-money Case
   A speech in John Hampden's defence from Gardiner "Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution". A classic denunciation of arbitrary taxation.
   http://www.constitution.org/eng/conpur021.htm

» Ship Money
   An article in the open source encyclopaedia, Wikipedia, discussing the history and constitutional implications of Ship Money.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_money

» Ship Money List
   An article from the Swindon Advertiser of 1885 with a short essay on the importance of ship money, and an explanation on how it was assessed and the Ship Money lists of Wiltshire.
   http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/WIL/ship1635.html

» The John Hampden Society
   A society devoted to the study of 17th-century Parliamentarian John Hampden, who famous for resisting the Ship Money tax.
   http://www.johnhampden.org/