The expenses of the royal household, wars, and lavish publi… - Eric Roll, Baron Roll of Ipsden

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The expenses of the royal household, wars, and lavish public building were financed by tolls and the profits of the king's foreign trade monopoly, by conscription of labour and heavy taxation. The results were impoverishment of the masses, alienation of land, and the development of a proletariat.

Eric Roll, Baron Roll of Ipsden

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Eric Roll CB, KCMG (1 December 1907 – 30 March 2005) was an economist, public servant, and banker. He was made a life peer in 1977.

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