[See CONDUCT sb.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 paid 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. Coat and conduct money, and other military charges, were either pressed as due, or, failing that claim of right, were required as loans.
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.
