Définition

• A former tax levied in time of war on the ports and maritime towns of England to provide ships for the royal service. It was revived by Charles I, but was finally abolished by statute in 1640.

  In 1636 William Prynne issued a pamphlet entitled Remedy against Ship Money.

La source

• Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)

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