The Statesman – The John Hampden SocietyPart II – The Statesman The Ship Money memorial near Great Hampden Hampden himself was imprisoned in 1626 for refusing to subscribe to a forced loan, but it was in 1635, when the Ship Money tax was extended to the inland counties, that he made his great http://www.johnhampden.org/about-john-hampden/the-statesman/