head money

head money (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Poll tax.
   • 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavses that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC; republished in (Please provide a date or year):

     to be taxt by the poul, to be scons't our head money, our tuppences in their Chaunlerly Shop-book of Easter

2. (obsolete) A reward paid per person captured at sea etc.
3. (obsolete) A reward for a proscribed outlaw's head.