Hampden : John (1594-1643), English parliamentary leader; his challenge to King Charles I over ship-money (a tax historically imposed only in maritime countries), became an episode in the controversies that led to the English Civil War (1642-51).
... always been prepared to break an unjust and oppressive law whenever necessary and to take the legal consequences, as the non-Conformists in England did when they refused to pay the education rate or as Hampden did when he refused to pay ship-money. Even under present conditions in India there is at least one direction in which, it appears, many of us are already breaking what Anglo-Indian courts have determined ...
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