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Definition of Ship money
1. Noun. An impost levied in England to provide money for ships for national defense.
Definition of Ship money
1. Noun. (historical) A tax applied to coastal towns for their defence in wartime. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ship Money
Literary usage of Ship money
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Table Talk of John Selden by John Selden, Richard Milward (1892)
"NOY brought in ship-money first for maritime towns; but that was like putting in a
... They that at first would not pay ship-money, till it was decided, ..."
2. The Table Talk of John Selden by John Selden, Richard Milward (1892)
"NOY brought in ship-money first for maritime towns; but that was like putting in a
... They that at first would not pay ship-money, till it was decided, ..."
3. The History of England from the Accession of James II. by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay, Samuel Austin Allibone (1875)
"Former princes had raised ship- money only in time of war; ... Former princes,
even in the most perilous wars, had raised ship-money only along the coasts; ..."
4. The History of England from the Accession of James II by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1856)
"Former princes had raised ship-money only in time of war; ... Former princes,
even in the most perilous wars, had raised ship- money only along the coasts; ..."
5. The History of England from the Accession of James II. by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1849)
"Former princes had raised ship-money only in time of war; ... Former princes,
even in the most perilous wars, had raised ship- money only along the coasts; ..."
6. History of England from the Accession of James I to the Outbreak of the by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1909)
"In the midst of this growing feeling of dissatisfaction, the third writ of
ship-money, the second of those which had been o,.,, 0. sent out to the whole of ..."
7. English Constitutional History from the Teutonic Conquest to the Present Time by Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead, Philip Arthur Ashworth (1905)
"Ship-money abolished. Star Chamber abolished. prerogative of levying customs on
merchandise. By this Act (which granted to the king tonnage and poundage for ..."
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