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
Having once made so perilous a step, he was naturally induced to continue, and to consult the public interest by imposing ship money, and other moderate though irregular burdens and taxations.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell by David Hume
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
The grievance of this ship money being somewhat too strong, John Chambers, a citizen of London, refused to pay his part of it.
From A Child's History of England by F. H. Townsend
At last he comes to the time of the Stuarts, and there is much talk of the royal prerogative, and ship money, and attainders, and acts of Parliament.
From The Gentle Reader by Samuel McChord Crothers
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