Before revision: New impositions of this kind were imposed by Elizabeth I on currants and tobacco (1601) and extended by King James I to most imports (1608) after a favourable ruling in Bates' Case (1606).James I, Christopher Durston, 1993 John Bates was a merchant from the Levant Company who refused to pay the import duty on currants , this was taken to the Court of the Exchequer, he lost and so impositions were extended giving the treasury a "windfall".
After revision: New impositions of this kind were imposed by Elizabeth I on currants and tobacco (1601) and extended by King James I to most imports (1608) after a favourable ruling in Bates' Case (1606).James I; Christopher Durston, 1993 John Bates was a merchant from the Levant Company who refused to pay the import duty on currants , this was taken to the Court of the Exchequer, where he lost, and so impositions were extended giving the treasury a "windfall".