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In obedience to these instructions, the Commissioners made their investigations, and reported that they had recognised, as worthy of further inquiry, claims representing a sum total of 241,965l. 10s. 5d., but they added an expression of opinion that the losses suffered would be found, on closer examination, not to exceed the value of 100,000l.
I had something of my own, but also I had debts, and at the present moment a draft in my pocket for £2,163 14s. 5d., and a little loose cash, represents the total of my worldly goods, just about the sum I have been accustomed to spend per annum." "I don't call that ruin, I call that riches," said Benita, relieved. "With £2,000 to begin on you may make a fortune in Africa.
For making a ditch about the house where the said hay was put, 1s. 8d. For putting and piling up one rick of hay in the house, 1s. 8d. Wages of two turf-cutters, seven days, at 5d. per day, 5s. 10d. For the carriage of turves to cover the king's kitchen, 7s. 6d. For twenty-two empty casks, bought to make paling for the queen's court yard, 18s. 4d.
The first mention of the king's sixth wife in the public records is a tailor's bill for numerous items of cotton, linen, buckram, etc., and the making of Italian gowns, pleats, and sleeves, kirtles, French, Dutch, and Venetian gowns, Venetian sleeves, French hoods, etc., of various materials, the total amount of the bill being 8 pounds, 9s. 5d.
It has just struck me that 1s. 5d. a day for a charwoman, a messenger and an accountant, to say nothing of a metaphysician, all rolled into one, is low pay. In London you would have to give such a being at least a pound a week. September 25. Ledgers, vouchers, errands, most of the day. Melting hot, with a hot wind.
Benett, of Pyt-house, in this county, was let for 400l. a-year; at the present time this farm, the property of Mr. John Benett, of Pyt-house, is let for 1,260l. a-year. Thus it clearly appears in this parish, within the last 30 years, labour has risen from 6s. to 8s. per week, 33 per cent., the quartern loaf from 5d. to 10-1/2d., 105 per cent., the rent of land from 400l. to 1,260l., 212 per cent.
Hitherto, the native silver coins had been 5d. and 10d. pieces, a British shilling had been a thirteen-penny, and a half-crown, 2s. 8-1/2d. This half-crown was the usual breakfast-money of gentlemen's servants that is, their weekly allowance for purchasing everything except dinner.
But the shirtmakers' lot is the worst. They receive for an ordinary shirt 1.5d., formerly 2d.-3d.; but since the workhouse of St. Pancras, which is administered by a Radical board of guardians, began to undertake work at 1.5d., the poor women outside have been compelled to do the same. For fine, fancy shirts, which can be made in one day of eighteen hours, 6d. is paid.
For instance, anyone wishing to travel for five days on end has only to pay £1 4s. 7d. for a first-class ticket, 16s. 5d. for a second-class, or 9s. 5d. for a third-class. For these small sums you can go all over Belgium on the State railways, stopping as often as you please, at any hour of the day or night, for five days.
A family will pick many quarts of bilberries in the day, and as these are sold at prices varying from 3d. to 5d. a quart, it will be readily understood that it is by no means impossible that the large sum of 400 or 500 pounds should thus be realised in a single season.
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