Danegelt

This was the origin of the tax known as Danegelt, which in after years became one of the chief financial resources of the Crown and continued almost uninterruptedly down to the reign of Henry II.

London and the Kingdom - Volume I

He remitted the heavy imposition called Danegelt, amounting to 40,000_l. _ a year, which had been constantly collected after the occasion had ceased; he even repaid to his subjects what he found in the treasury at his accession.

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763

He remitted the odious "Danegelt", which had needlessly continued to be levied; and though profuse in alms to the poor and for religious purposes, he made his own royal patrimony suffice without imposing taxes.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

And who shall then stick closest to ye, and excite others? not he who takes up arms for coat and conduct, and his four nobles of Danegelt.

Areopagitica 2007

And who shall then stick closest to ye, and excite others? not he who takes up arms for coat and conduct, and his four nobles of Danegelt.

Areopagitica 2007

Danegelt or tribute, displaying at once the power of the invaders and the cowardice and effeminacy of the Saxon monarchs, rose to a large sum, and two millions [11] of Saxons were powerless to drive the invaders away.

English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee

Danegelt and murder; they were to be allowed to purge themselves after the

London and the Kingdom - Volume I

No. In order to get the money, Ethelred taxed the people, that is, he made each person pay a certain sum every year, and this was called Danegelt or Danemoney.

An Island Story: A History of England for Boys and Girls Henrietta Elizabeth 1920

Not he who takes up arms for coat and conduct, and his four nobles of Danegelt.

A Book of English Prose Part II, Arranged for Secondary and High Schools Percy Lubbock 1922

Danegelt was originally the land-tax raised by Ethelred the Unready to buy off the Danes; the word was afterwards used of any unpopular tax, here of Charles I's imposition of ship-money, resisted by Hampden.

A Book of English Prose Part II, Arranged for Secondary and High Schools Percy Lubbock 1922