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crown tax
crown tax n. chiefly historical a tax payable to the Crown, originally spec. a tribute paid by the Jews to the kings of Syria. [In early (biblical) use after Hellenistic Greek στέϕανος kind of tribute paid to the sovereign (e.g. in Egypt and Syria; specific use of ancient Greek στέϕανος crown: see stephane n.), and probably also after German Kronsteuer, lit. ‘crown tax’ (1533 in Luther in the passage corresponding to quot. 1535; earlier in sense ‘tribute paid at a coronation, especially by the Jews to a (German) Emperor’ (1404); also Kronensteuer, now historical).]
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1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Macc. xi. 35 The customes of salt and crowne taxes [Gk. τοὺς..στεφάνους].
1611 Bible (King James) 1 Macc. x. 29 I release all the Iewes from..crowne taxes [Gk. ἀπὸ τῶν στεφάνων] . View more context for this quotation
1705 T. B. in H. Newcome Transubstant. Discuss'd i. 121 Nor would he think he satisfy'd the Law of Paying the Crown-Tax, if he paid only a Piece of Lead stamp'd with the Dye of a Crown.
1762 P. Murdoch tr. A. F. Büsching New Syst. Geogr. IV. 37 The two last Emperors, Charles VI. and VII. have endeavoured to introduce again..the crown-taxes, which the Jews in the Roman Empire were formerly obliged to pay.
1844 J. Gregg Commerce of Prairies I. vi. 118 A salary of 8,000 ducats of Castile per annum—the privilege of working mines exempt from the usual crown-tax.
1907 B.P. Grenfell et al. Tebtunis Papyri II. 188 The crown-tax, for which 5½ obols 1 chalcus are paid.
2006 Econ. Hist. Rev. 59 496 The main issue of freeholders in Sweden..was to keep the crown taxes and tithes unalterable.
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