ship money
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Direct transfers are the fastest way to ship money out of the Treasury, but they don't provide stimulus if they don't get spent.
From Time Magazine Archive
The judges who had given their vote against Hambden in the trial of ship money, were accused before the peers, and obliged to find surety for their appearance.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell by Hume, David
The same nation that had rebelled against the levying of the "ship money" and the proceedings of the Star Chamber allowed Charles II. almost as absolute an authority as ever the King of France possessed.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright
Collection of ship money in the city enforced, June, 1640.
From London and the Kingdom - Volume II by Sharpe, Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson)
In 1638 we find him, notwithstanding his recent experiences, one of the chief leaders in his county of the resistance to ship money, though it would appear that he subsequently made submission.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various
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