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Parliamentary subsidy — OCR GCSE History A Definition | GradeGen

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Parliamentary subsidy

GCSE History · key term

Parliamentary subsidy

Definition

A grant of taxation approved by Parliament to help finance royal government.

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OCR GCSE History A · J410

Paper 2

Revise: Elizabethan Warfare and Border Society

OCR History A past papers

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1
Explain the link between war expenditure, requests for parliamentary subsidies and tensions over royal methods of raising money.

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