conduct-moneyn.
1. Historical. Money to pay for the expense of conducting to the rendezvous at the coast each man furnished by a hundred to serve in the King's army; also, an impost exacted under this head by Charles I. when governing without a Parliament. See also coat-money n.
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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
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ship-money1636
shipping-money1640
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conduct1644
trophy money1664
trophy tax1701
watch-mail1710
Saladine tax1728
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > [noun] > pay of troops > soldier's pay > additional > types of
conduct-money1512
conduct1644
belt money1648
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marching money1837
command allowance1860
command pay1875
1512 Indent. in Archæol. XI. 162 Also the said soldiers, mariners, and gunners shall have of our sovereign Lord conduct-money.
1523 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 43 Paid for xx sowdiars cunndyȝt monay to dover.
1581 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha (1588) iv. iv. 481 If any person hauing charge of men..haue not paied to his souldiours their whole wages, conduit, and cote mony.
1640 Orig. Jrnls. House of Commons 14 Dec. 20 232 To consider of the assissing leuying collecting & taking of conduct money.
1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης i. 3 Such illegal actions..as..compulsive Knighthoods, Cote, Conduct and Ship-mony.
1860 J. Forster Deb. Grand Remonstr. 225.
2. Money paid for the necessary travelling expenses of seamen for the navy from their place of entry to their place of embarkation.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > [noun] > sailor's pay > additional payments
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prime gilt1576
pinch-gut money1660
hat money1676
conduct-money1702
hard line money1886
hard-lying money1890
hard lyers1916
1702 Royal Proclam. 8 Jan. in London Gaz. No. 3775/1 Conduct-Money, according to the Practice of the Navy, shall likewise be allowed to such Seamen.
1793 Ld. Nelson in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) I. 303 To write to the Admiralty for an order to Captain Patrick Lynn, to receive my volunteers, and to pay their conduct money from the places they respectively enter with me.
3. Money paid to a witness for his travelling expenses to and from the place of trial.
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1864 J. J. S. Wharton Law-lexicon (ed. 3) ; and in ordinary use.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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