ship money

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Noun

ship money (countable and uncountable, plural ship moneys or ship monies)

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  1. (historical) A tax applied to coastal towns for their defence in wartime.
    The imposition of ship money without Parliamentary consent was one of the causes of the English Civil War.
    • 1834, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Francesca Carrara, volume 1, pages 30-31:
      When I stood by the side of Hampden, contending against a heavy oppression, and for an undeniable right, who could have thought that his refusal to pay that twenty shillings ship-money would be the first act of a resistance that was destined to arouse a whole nation, and kindle civil war from one end of our island to the other?
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