Money paid in tribute.
1526. Tindale, Matt. xxii. 19. Let me se the tribute money. And they toke hym a peny.
1706. Arbuthnot, Serm., Misc. Wks. 1751, II. 185. Let down your Nets; and you may fetch your Tribute-Money out of your Fishes.
1775. Public Advertiser, 14 Feb., 2/4. No less than fifteen Sermons were preached last Sunday in London and Westminster on Cæsar’s Tribute Money.
1814. Scott, Wav., xv. Paying the arrears of tribute money.
1841. Boston Post, 10 Sept., 1/5. By finance and British manufactures, our nation is already laid under more than twelve millions of annual tribute money, and should the tribute be delayed beyond quarter day, British war steamers, with iron teeth, are prepared to dart upon our Atlantic cities to enforce payment.
1881. W. W. Newton, Childr. Serm., xii. 67. In Jerusalem, when Jesus lived there, every Jew was expected to pay the same sum of money for the temple, and what is here called the tribute money was about one shilling and threepence.
