Hist. Money to provide a coat for each man furnished for military service; esp. that exacted as a tax by Charles I. when governing without a Parliament. Usually in the phrase Coat and Conduct Money. Cf. COAT sb. 12.
See Forster, Gr. Remonstr. (1860), 225; Bruce, Verney Papers (Camd. Soc. 1853), 127, 289–293.
1557. Act 4 & 5 Philip & Mary, c. 3 § 4. If any Captain … shall not pay unto his Soldiers … their full and whole Wages, Conduct and Coat Money.
1640. Schedule Grievances, in Forster, Gr. Remonstr. (1860), 225. The new taxe of Coate and Conduct Mony, with undue meanes used to inforce the payment of it.
1640. Pym, Sp. Grievances, in Forster, Life (1837), 109. The seventh great civil grievance hath been, the militarie charges laid upon the several counties of the kingdome…. It began first to be practised as a loane for supply of coat and conduct money.
1647. Clarendon, Hist. Reb., I. V. 427. The continued Oppressions by Ship-money, Coat and Conduct-money.
a. 1662. Heylin, Laud, IV. (1668), 382. To raise and maintain an Army with no charge to the Common Subject: but only a little Coat and Conduct money at their first setting out.
1761. Hume, Hist. Eng., III. liii. 148.
1827. Hallam, Const. Hist. (1876), II. viii. 92.
