Amicable Grant
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The Amicable Grant was a tax imposed on England in 1525 by the Lord Chancellor Thomas Wolsey. Called at the time "a benevolence", it was essentially a forced loan, a levy of between one-sixth and one-
Thomas Wolsey: Lord Chancellor in 1525 and right-hand man to the King.
William Warham
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William Warham was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1503 until his death in 1532.
Amicable Grant
…subsidy of 1523 was still being collected. Unlike the "loans" of 1522–1523 there were no promises of a return on payment from this new toll. Archbishop William Warham reported on 12 April that he found the Kentish clergy 'not inclined to the grant' and that the heads of the religious houses had answered 'that they…
Portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger (1527)
Warham's tomb in Canterbury Cathedral