"ship money" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
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          "text": "The imposition of ship money without Parliamentary consent was one of the causes of the English Civil War.",
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          "text": "When I stood by the side of Hampden, contending against a heavy oppression, and for an undeniable right, who could have thought that his refusal to pay that twenty shillings ship-money would be the first act of a resistance that was destined to arouse a whole nation, and kindle civil war from one end of our island to the other?",
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        "A tax applied to coastal towns for their defence in wartime."
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        "(historical) A tax applied to coastal towns for their defence in wartime."
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