Also see Impressment (“The Press”).
Press money
1893 text
Money paid to men who enlist into the public service; press money. So called because those who receive it are to be prest or ready when called on (“Encyclopaedic Dictionary”).
This text comes from a footnote on a diary entry in the 1893 edition edited by Henry B. Wheatley.
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