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
Among other things provisions were made for an extensive naval establishment, based on a contribution that grew into the ship money of later fame.
From Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age by Larson, Laurence Marcellus
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
On the 9th June, 1640, the lord mayor and both the sheriffs were summoned to attend the council to give an account of the ship money due from the city.
From London and the Kingdom - Volume II by Sharpe, Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson)
Mr. Hampden's ship money will be a King's lesson, I tell you.
From Oliver Cromwell by Drinkwater, John
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