about golden sovereigns the only real money they they try to avoid money they hated the bank of england ben franklin said it was the chief cause for the revolution was to get away from the bank of england and 1694 that was just about the time the bank of england was created if a mom a steak and so subtle was the in order to eat we used to have a thing called the hof tax which was a tax on every front place every step and twice a year tax collectors would come into your house and count the number of stoves you had and it was a bit like the b.b.c. license fee and. this was considered a violation of the englishman's christmassy and so when william of orange became king of england in order to ingratiate himself with the new he called. he got rid of the tax and then all of a sudden he found himself without any money and various rules rules which he needed to wage and that's why he stressed the bank of england and then the wind tax yet fascinating the way these things echo through history in our history your history so much in mashed over hundreds of years and the tax man has played a vital role and you k