1654 (title) An order by the Commissioners of the Admirality and the Navy, concerning the payment of the prize-money due to seamen and souldiers, and their widows, that have served at sea in this last years expedition.

1702 G. Everett Answer Mr. Paschal's Let. 9 That some Commanders, who have been detected at another Board for Imbezeling Prize-goods to a great Value, have been paid their full shares of Prize-Money, by the Commissioners for Prizes.

1735 Lives Most Remarkable Criminals I. 227 The prize Money of each Sailor came but to 15 Pounds.

1757 J. Lind Lett. Navy i. 23 All ships are equally entitled to their share of prize-money.

1800 J. Webbe in Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) I. 128 Likely to obtain neither fame nor prize money.

1855 Harper's Mag. July 152/2 The menacing murmurs of the seamen, who longed for prize money, made Jones perceive it to be expedient to yield.

1887 W. Besant World Went xxiv The prize-money..amounted to a very pretty sum.

1917 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 11 43 The abolition of privateering..has indeed been followed in several states by the abolition of prize money.

1980 E. G. Wilson John Clarkson i. 11 Not the least of the Navy's inducements was the prospect..of acquiring a fortune in prize money.

2001 J. Peck Maritime Fiction ii. 31 Austen's sailor brother Charles bought his sisters gold chains and crosses from prize money he received in 1801.

1754 G. G. Beekman Let. 2 Oct. in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) I. 227 Please to Pay the proceeds of the same to William Edmonds Stationer in London for my Account and the proceeds of the Twenty Pounds Prize money Lay Out for Tickits in the Next Lottery.

1784 Amer. Fugitive xlii. 189 My little savings enabled me, a few weeks ago, to try your chance in the present state-lottery... The prize-money is received, and lodged in the English Bank, or funds, till you think proper to come and take possession of it.

1805 F. Reynolds Delinquent i. iii. 16 Tho' Miss Fidget were the favourite, and, all hollow, the best horse, yet somehow I found the blacklegs, as they call 'em, were all for taking the long odds on Master Jacky... I just gave a smack or two, and here's the prize-money.

1869 L. M. Alcott Little Women II. iv. 49 Jo was satisfied with the investment of her prize-money, and fell to work with a cheery spirit, bent on earning more of those delightful checks.

1910 Indianapolis Star 25 Dec. 12/1 No tournament ever held has given as much as $25,000 of prize money to bowlers.

1973 M. Amis Rachel Papers 194 I was entering a national under-21 short-story competition, sponsored by one of the colour magazines. With the prize-money we might just have a few days in Paris ourselves.

2001 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 4 Nov. viii. 1/4 For the first time, there will be prize money for the two wheelchair divisions [in the New York City Marathon].