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- Ship Money List - An article from the Swindon Advertiser of 1885 with a short essay on the importance of ship money, and an explanation on how it was assessed and the Ship Money lists of Wiltshire.
- Ship Money - An article in the open source encyclopaedia, Wikipedia, discussing the history and constitutional implications of Ship Money.
- Sandwich Collects Ship Money - Ship Money is still collected in England, the Cinque Port of Sandwich in Kent.
- Act Declaring the Illegality of Ship-money. - An Act passed, just before the start of the Civil War, making Ship Money illegal. Widely interpreted as a victory for Parliament over the King.
- Extracts from the Speech of Oliver St John in the Ship-money Case - A speech in John Hampden's defence from Gardiner "Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution". A classic denunciation of arbitrary taxation.
- The John Hampden Society - A society devoted to the study of 17th-century Parliamentarian John Hampden, who famous for resisting the Ship Money tax.
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- The John Hampden Society - A society devoted to the study of seventeenth century Parliamentarian John Hampden, who became famous through resisting the Charles I's illegal Ship Money tax.
- The John Hampden Society - A society devoted to the study of 17th-century Parliamentarian John Hampden, who famous for resisting the King's illegal Ship Money tax.
Wikipedia Articles
- Ship money - Ship money was a tax, the levy of which by Charles I of England without the consent of Parliament was one of the causes of the English Civil War. The Plantagenet kings of England had exercised the right of requiring the maritime towns and counties to furnish ships in ...
- Bottomry - A bottomry, or bottomage, is when the master of a ship borrows money upon the bottom or keel of it, so as to forfeit the ship itself to the creditor, if the money is not paid at the time appointed with interest at the ship's safe return.
- For the Love of Money - "For the Love of Money" is a soul/funk song written by Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff, and Anthony Jackson; and recorded by Philadelphia soul group The O'Jays for the album Ship Ahoy. Produced by Gamble and Huff for Philadelphia International Records, "For the Love of Money" was issued as a single in late 1973 (see 1973 in music), with "People Keep Tellin' Me" as its b-side.
- Pay Me My Money Down - A protest folk sea chantey from Georgia and South Carolina, "Pay Me My Money Down" originated from post-slavery African American stevedores, who were often left unpaid by some ship captains.According to the Seeger Sessions liner notes.
- Purser - __NOTOC__A ship's purser (also purser or pusserFrom which the Pusser's brand of rum takes its name.) is the person on a ship responsible for the handling of money on board.