ship money
Britishnoun
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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
Bridget: It seems he was in a tavern here one evening, and they were talking about ship money.
From Oliver Cromwell by John Drinkwater
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 David Hume
John Hampden, a squire of Buckinghamshire, made a bold stand against this illegal demand by refusing to pay twenty shillings of ship money which was levied upon him.
From An Introduction to the History of Western Europe by James Harvey Robinson
Seth: That was a brave thing to do, sir, that about the ship money.
From Oliver Cromwell by John Drinkwater
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