SHIPMAN, LOUIS EVAN

(1869), an American author and playwright, 6. at Brooklyn, N.Y., s. of Hamilton W. and Caroline Town send Hoopes Shipman. He was educated at Brooklyn Poly. Inst. and at Harvard. He was an editorial writer for Leslie’s Weekly, 1895-6, and contributed to Life and Collier’s Weekly. In 1923 he became editor of Life. Among his works are: The True Adventures of a Play, 1914, and the play Fools Errant, 1921. SHIP - MONEY, Ene. tax for raising fleet, levied by Crown; uncertain whether inland counties might legally be a e ed; resistance to general writs, 1628; writs of 1634-35 and 1639 resisted (notably by John Hampden, g.v.) because i ued in time of peace, although judges decided for Crown; illegal by Act of Parliament, 1641.