<P> In the city of Brussels, then part of the Duchy of Brabant in the Habsburg Netherlands, there was a tax strike in 1619 . When the States of Brabant (composed of representatives of the clergy, the nobility, and the four cities Leuven, Brussels, Antwerp and' s - Hertogenbosch) met to renew the standard sales tax on the "four species of consumption" (beer, wine, bread and meat), the guilds of the city of Brussels instructed their representatives not to vote the taxes through until their grievances had been addressed . As the constitutional principle was that taxes had to be passed by "full consent", this meant the taxes could not legally be collected . After two months of constitutional impasse and fruitless negotiations (May--June) the government ordered the taxes to be collected notwithstanding . The guilds made this impossible, and their defiance of the government led to a military occupation of the city in September 1619 . The central authorities then revised the civic constitution to limit the power of the guilds to filibuster the States of Brabant . The deans of six of the guilds, and their legal counsel, were served with sentences of lifelong banishment from the Low Countries . </P> <P> In 1627, John Hampden was imprisoned for his opposition to the loan Charles I authorised without parliamentary sanction, and he also refused to pay ship money to the Royal Navy . The attempts to imprison resisters like Hampden led to the English Civil War . </P> <P> From the summer of 1646 through 1648, the city of London refused to pay taxes to the New Model Army which was occupying the city . </P> <P> In 1615, the residents of one commune refused to pay the wine tithe and threatened to throw the collector into the Rhône . </P>

Where did the most notorious tax protest occur