| 1. | The one-third and the two-third subsidy made up between them another five per cent. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 2. | The old subsidy was imposed indifferently upon exportation, as well as importation. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 3. | except the old subsidy of tonnage and poundage, which was now left out of this fund altogethe. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 4. | Upon the exportation of the greater part of commodities to other countries, half the old subsidy was drawn back. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 5. | "The old subsidy of tonnage and poundage," says Tyrwhitt, "was given to the king 'pour la saufgarde et custodie del mer.' -. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 6. | Wool was commonly paid as a subsidy to the king, and its valuation in that subsidy ascertains, at least in some degree, what was its ordinary price. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 7. | The duties of tonnage and poundage were generally granted to the king by one and the same act of parliament, and were called the subsidy of tonnage and poundage. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 8. | The subsidy of poundage having continued for so long a time at one shilling in the pound, or at five per cent., a subsidy came, in the language of the customs, to denote a general duty of this kind of five per cent. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 9. | If we count the one-third and two-third subsidies as making a complete subsidy between them, there have been five of these general subsidies so that, before the commencement of the present war, seventy-five per cent. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |