ship money

noun

English history a tax levied to finance the fitting out of warships: abolished 1640

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Examples from the Web for ship money

Historical Examples

Does any one now condemn Hampden for refusing to pay "ship-money?"
Cotton is King and The Pro-Slavery Arguments
Various
It sounds like ship-money come again, but it may not be so intended.
Chapters from My Autobiography
Mark Twain
"Yes" (I had told him how nearly I had missed our ship-money).
Tramping on Life
Harry Kemp
It was that party which forced Charles the First to relinquish the ship-money.
The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Vol. 4 (of 4)
Thomas Babington Macaulay
When an arbitrary imposition is attempted upon the subject, undoubtedly it will not bear on its forehead the name of Ship-money.
Thoughts on the Present Discontents
Edmund Burke

ship money

Examples from the Web for ship money

Historical Examples

Does any one now condemn Hampden for refusing to pay "ship-money?"

It sounds like ship-money come again, but it may not be so intended.

"Yes" (I had told him how nearly I had missed our ship-money).

It was that party which forced Charles the First to relinquish the ship-money.

When an arbitrary imposition is attempted upon the subject, undoubtedly it will not bear on its forehead the name of Ship-money.