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 effects of ship money began now to appear.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell by Hume, David
To waver about ship money until one knows whether Charles or Hampden is on the side of one's Church is dishonesty.
From Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron
The last device he hit upon was that of raising ship money.
From The Leading Facts of English History by Montgomery, D. H. (David Henry)
Wherein consisted the impropriety of King Charles's demanding ship money by his sole authority, but in its being an exercise of power by the King, which the people had not given the King?
From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Jorgenson, Chester E.
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