Even after looking it up, I still barely understand.
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“If you spend lots of money, then you must have lots of money to spend, so the King can collect high taxes from you. Meanwhile, if you spend very little money, you must be saving your money, so the King can collect high taxes from you.”
While this was sometimes used to bully the poor, it was mostly used against the nobility and gentry, especially in Wales, which created resentment. Given the issues with it primarily arose *after* Archbishop John Morton’s death, it actually seems that it was Henry VII who was responsible, and Morton had if anything *restrained* his King’s greed.
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