Quote Originally Posted by Ash View Post
Wool tax, hearth tax, taxes for the hundred year war, taxes for war against Scotland. High taxes were a cause of the peasants revolt. Then you had yer famines, yer plagues ....
One wonders how they afforded good hospitals, schools and were able to maintain the cities and towns not to mention providing safety and security for all of the citizens without taxes.

Miracle workers, it seems. That or the place was - by current standards - an utter ****hole that barely touched the standards now associated with civilization.