page_title: Poundage
section_title: The Tonnage and Poundage Act (1641)
hierarchical_section_title: Poundage / Poundage in English History / Poundage under Charles I of England / The Tonnage and Poundage Act (1641)
caption_attribution_description: King Charles II, by John Michael Wright or studio. See source website for additional information. This set of images was gathered by User:Dcoetzee from the National Portrait Gallery, London website using a special tool. All images in this batch have a known author, but have manually examined for strong evidence that the author was dead before 1939, such as approximate death dates, birth dates, floruit dates, and publication dates.
context_page_description: In English law, poundage was an ad valorem customs duty imposed on imports and exports at the rate of 1 shilling for every pound of goods imported or exported.
  Poundage was implemented in order to keep a strong naval force that would protect the Kingdom of England. The custom duty would allow the Monarch of the Kingdom to collect money that would then be spent to develop and maintain the naval force that protects the Kingdom.
  Poundage was closely associated with tonnage, or tunnage, which was a duty on every tun of wine imported.
context_section_description: In September 1640, following the Bishops' Wars, King Charles I issued writs summoning the Parliament to convene on 3 November 1640. It was the creation of the Long Parliament, that lasted until it voted its own dissolution on the 16 March 1660.
  In 1641, the Tonnage and Poundage Act was voted by the Long Parliament, that would regulate all the taxes in force within the kingdom, concerning consequently the current poundage imposed on imports and exports.
caption: King Charles II (reign 1660–1665) in Garter robes by John Michael Wright
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