Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In old English law, a charge or tax imposed by the king upon seaports and trading-towns, requiring them to provide and furnish war-ships, or to pay money for that purpose.
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Examples
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I shall not now enter into the justness of this character of Mr. Hampden, to whose brave stand against the illegal demand of ship-money we owe our present liberties; but I mention it to you as the character, which with the alteration of one single word, GOOD, instead of MISCHIEF, I would have you aspire to, and use your utmost endeavors to deserve.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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The tax that focused hatred on Charles was ship-money, by which a writ issued in 1635 extended to the whole country a tax hitherto levied only on seaboard towns.
1626-30 2001
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And this was the first appearance in the present reign of ship-money -- a taxation which had once been imposed by Elizabeth, on a great emergency, but which, revived and carried further by Charles, produced the most violent discontent.
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Ministerial rank worked a wonderful change; so much so that Noye was actually the originator of the ship-money tax which played so large a share in embroiling the nation.
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Does any one now condemn Hampden for refusing to pay "ship-money?"
Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject E. N. [Editor] Elliott
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In 1636, John Hampden became universally known by his intrepid opposition to the ship-money, as an illegal tax.
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It is the same spirit that refused ship-money to Charles I., and tea-money to George III.
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He resisted ship-money and the tax unlawfully imposed on tonnage and poundage.
Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. John Sherman
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They might assert that Hampden would have done better if he had paid the ship-money and had taught the Stuarts their lesson peaceably; that William of Orange committed a crime when he did not put his life and his sword into the hands of
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 Various
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No doubt ship-money was necessary, and it was the patriotic thing to give it up, and no doubt the same applies to men for the Army: but when it came to the principle of the King taking money without the consent of
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