See Also: ship-money(dictionary)
ship money(encyclopedia)
Tight money or dear money(finance)
Ship(medicine)
ship(dictionary)
ship(encyclopedia)
ship(3)(dictionary)
SHIP(law)
ship(2)(dictionary)
CHARTERED SHIP(law)

COUNTER, Eng (law) and ship-money (iou)


COUNTER, Eng (law)


COUNTER, Eng. law. The name of an ancient prison in the city of London, which has now been demolished. which has now been demolished.

ship-money (iou)



ship-money noun. Hist. M17.
[from SHIP noun + MONEY noun.]
In England, a tax formerly levied in wartime on ports and maritime towns, cities, and counties (later also, inland counties) to provide ships for the monarch's service, abolished in 1640.