John Hampden's refusal to pay ship money and the subsequent legal proceedings before all twelve common law judges in 1637-1638 was one of the most significant pre-Civil War confrontations between crown prerogative and parliamentary taxation principles. Though Hampden lost narrowly, the close legal division and the public attention given to the trial transformed resistance to ship money and helped crystallise opposition to Charles I's personal rule.
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