Crossword-Solution: IMPOT 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Bouchaud, in his treatise de l’Impot chez les Romains, has transcribed this catalogue from the Digest, and attempts to illustrate it by a very prolix commentary.

The edicts, relative to the corvees and free circulation of grain, were first presented to the Parliament and registered; but those for the impot territorial, and stamp tax, offered some time after, were refused by the Parliament, which proposed a call of the States General, as alone competent to their authorization.

The rigorous levy of the _deux vingtiemes_ is enregistered, the stamp act and _impot territorial_ are revoked, the parliament recalled, the nation soothed by these acts, and inspired by the insults of the British court.

After much and warm altercation, a _lit de justice_ has been held this day at Versailles; it was opened by the reading a severe remonstrance from the parliament, to which the King made a hard reply, and finished by ordering the stamp tax, and impot-territorial to be registered.

Add to this that he had remained steadily at the bottom of his class during the entire period, and that once he had received an "impot" (or imposition) from Mr Rastle, and it will easily be understood that he soon gained favour among his fellows.