ˈconduct-money
[See conduct n.1 I.]
1. Hist. 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.
| 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. Oxford 43 Paid for xx sowdiars cunndyȝt monay to dover. 1581 Lambarde Eiren. iv. iv. (1588) 481 If any person hauing charge of men..haue not paied to his souldiours their whole wages, conduit, and cote mony. 1640 Jrnl. Ho. Comm. II. 50 To consider of the Assessing, Levying, Collecting and Taking of Coat and Conduct Money. 1649 Milton Eikon. i. (1851) 338 Such illegal actions..as Compulsive Knighthoods, Cote, Conduct and Ship-mony. 1860 Forster Gr. 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.
| 1702 Royal Proclam. 8 Jan. in Lond. Gaz. No. 3775/1 Conduct-Money, according to the Practice of the Navy, shall likewise be allowed to such Seamen. 1793 Nelson in Nicolas Disp. (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.
| 1864 in Wharton Law Lex. (ed. 3); and in ordinary use. |