| 单词 | coat and conduct money |
| 释义 | > as lemmascoat and conduct money Money to provide a coat for each man furnished for military service; esp. that exacted as a tax by Charles I. when governing without a Parliament. Usually in the phrase coat and conduct money. Cf. coat n. 12. See Forster Gr. Remonstr. (1860) 225; Bruce Verney Papers Camd. Soc. (1853) 127, 289–293. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > military exactions > [noun] coynye1449 scutagec1460 spear silver1496 conduct-money1512 coat-money1557 bonaght1568 cessc1571 cosheringc1571 cessheryc1575 quartering-money1580 sessa1581 coshery1587 coatc1630 ship-money1636 shipping-money1640 ship-scot1640 conduct1644 trophy money1664 trophy tax1701 watch-mail1710 Saladine tax1728 1557 Act 4 & 5 Philip & Mary c. 3 §4 If any Captain..shall not pay unto his Soldiers..their full and whole Wages, Conduct and Coat Money. 1640 Schedule Grievances in Forster Gr. Remonstr. (1860) 225 The new taxe of Coate and Conduct Mony, with undue meanes used to inforce the payment of it. 1640 Pym Speech Grievances in Forster Life (1837) 109 The seventh great civil grievance hath been, the militarie charges laid upon the several counties of the kingdome..It began first to be practised as a loane for supply of coat and conduct money. a1662 P. Heylyn Cyprianus Anglicus (1668) iv. 382 To raise and maintain an Army with no charge to the Common Subject: but only a little Coat and Conduct money at their first setting out. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. v. 427 The continued Oppressions by Ship-money, Coat and Conduct-money. 1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. III. liii. 148. 1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. II. viii. 552 A new imposition was laid on the counties, under the name of coat-and-conduct-money. < as lemmas |
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