text:  It is strange that the Khan should not in this case perceive the fallacy of his own argument or see that the power of the sword must always virtually rest with the holder of the purse; since immediately afterwards after enlarging on the enormous amount of taxes levied in England the oppressive nature of some of them especially the window-tax "for the light of heaven is God's gift to mankind " he proceeds--"In other countries it would perhaps cost the king who imposed such taxes his head; but here the blame is laid on the House of Commons without any one dreaming of censuring the sovereign in whose name they are levied and for whose use they are applied;" citing as a proof of this the ease with which the insurrection of Wat Tyler and his followers against the capitation tax was suppressed by the promise of the king to redress their grievances