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Bull, and only four of the younger Bulls and Cows, numbering six in all, make good their entry at the cost of 1l. 4s. Ditto for the ballet 6s. Ditto for the battle 6s. Ditto for the fire-works 6s. Total 2l. 14s.
Under Elizabeth, the allowance made to Queen's Sergeants was £26 6s. 8d. for fee, reward, and robes; and £20. for his services whenever a Queen's Sergeant travelled circuit as Justice of Assize. The fee for her Solicitor General was £50.
This book consists of more tales of the Far North, and contains the last adventures of 'Pretty Pierre. Mr. Parker's first volume of Canadian stories was published about three years ago, and was received with unanimous praise. HURRISH. By the Honble. EMILY LAWLESS, Author of 'Maelcho, 'Grania, etc. Crown 8vo. 6s. A reissue of Miss Lawless' most popular novel.
This casting about for new sources of revenue was characteristic of all parishes as the reign advanced. Op. cit., 26. Op. cit., 92. In 1605 and 1606, doubtless to meet some extraordinary expenses, the Mere wardens roused themselves to great efforts at their church-ale, and netted £15 6s., and £20 respectively. Sir Rich. Colt Hoare, Hist. of Modern Wiltshire , i, 21.
Bales, the young widow, whom I led home, and having staid till the moon was up, I took my pretty gossip to White Hall with us, and I saw her in her lodging, and then my owne company again took coach, and no sooner in the coach but something broke, that we were fain there to stay till a smith could be fetched, which was above an hour, and then it costing me 6s. to mend.
The alleged extortion of money by the clergy from a poverty-stricken peasantry is scarcely borne out by the evidence before the Royal Commission on the Financial Relations, in which Dr. O'Donnell, Bishop of Raphoe, calculated that the average contribution to the clergy in the West of Ireland, including subscriptions for the building and maintenance of churches, is 6s. or 7s. a year per family.
I cannot think from all I have heard that sheep will be lower than 10s. a head, still some place the minimum value as low as 6s. The question arises, What is to be done with one's money when the term is out?
On his arrival he found that the prices of sheep had fallen from about 30s. to 5s. or 6s. per head, and he bought some well-bred flocks at these prices. This alone increased his original capital, invested in sheep, from L700 to L5,700. The profits from the wool paid the whole of his expenses and wages for his men."
In the year of our Lord 1500 the corporation of Canterbury paid for advice regarding their civic interests 3s. 4d. to each of three sergeants, and gave the Recorder of London 6s. 8d. as a retaining-fee. Five years later, Mr. Serjeant Wood received a fee of 10s. from the Goldsmiths' Company; and it maybe fairly assumed, that so important and wealthy a body paid the sergeant on a liberal scale.
Heinemann. 3s. 6d. net. This, which is one of the greatest novels ever written, depicts, at once relentlessly and with infinite tenderness, the spiritual conflict which has agitated Russian society for at least fifty years past. JOSEPH CONRAD. Under Western Eyes. 6s. A powerful study of modern revolutionary types. Conrad, of course, is not a Russian novelist, but he is of Polish origin.
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