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Updated: June 28, 2025
"The House will now go into the Question of Supply." "The Exchequer," I reported, "contains exactly sixteen and eightpence halfpenny." "Rent having been duly paid to-day and receipt given." "Receipt given," I echoed. "Really, when one comes to think of it, the situation is striking.
For some time the rain had been merciless; one night after another he had been obliged to squander fourpence on a bed and reduce his board to the remaining eightpence: and he sat one morning near the Macquarrie Street entrance, hungry, for he had gone without breakfast, and wet, as he had already been for several days, when the cries of an animal in distress attracted his attention.
It continued to be estimated at this price till about 1570. In the household book of Henry, the fifth earl of Northumberland, drawn up in 1512 there are two different estimations of wheat. In one of them it is computed at six shilling and eightpence the quarter, in the other at five shillings and eightpence only.
Sixty pence will make, five shillings, Which, we learn is just a crown; Seventy pence are five and tenpence, This is known throughout the town. Eighty pence are six and eightpence, I'll always try to think of that; Ninety pence are seven and sixpence, This will buy a beaver hat.
"Our shop is not open to-day my good friends: the account can stand over; far be it from me to press the poor." "Master Diggs," said a Hell-cat, "canst thou tell us the price of bacon to-day?" "Well, good bacon," said the elder Diggs willing to humour them, "may be eightpence a-pound." "Thou are wrong Master Diggs," said the Hell-cat, "'tis fourpence and long credit.
"Jasper," said Tom, his eyes filling with tears, "you have said a hard thing, but I know you don't mean it. If you are absolutely set on this silly freak, we will stand or fall together." "Very well," said I, "we will stand or fall together, for I am perfectly serious. The six and eightpence halfpenny, no more and no less, I propose to spend in supper.
Here a native musician was discovered twanging a native guitar, either as an accompaniment to the cackling of hundreds of fowls and the gobbling of innumerable turkeys, or as a desperate effort to beat these creatures at their own game of noise. On inquiry Mark found that fowls were sold at from fourpence to eightpence a-piece; geese and turkeys from a shilling to eighteenpence.
Geordie was now fairly free from the uncongenial drudgery of farm life, and able to follow his own inclinations in the direction of mechanical labour. Besides, was he not earning the grand sum of sixpence a day as picker, increased to eightpence a little later on, when he rose to the more responsible and serious work of driving the gin-horse?
The reader also may learn from those chroniclers how the company were placed according to degrees at different tables; how the banquets were served to the sound of drums and fifes; how the boar's head was brought in upon a silver dish; how the gentlemen in gowns, the trumpeters, and other musicians followed the boar's head in stately procession; and how, by a rule somewhat at variance with modern notions concerning old English hospitality, strangers of worth were expected to pay in cash for their entertainment, eightpence per head being the charge for dinner on the day of Christmas Eve, and twelve-pence being demanded from each stranger for his dinner on the following day.
He was found guilty of paying to his laborers the wretched sum of only eightpence a day; which he paid by the vile truck system that is to say by forcing them to take potatoes, milk, meal, &c, at nearly twice what the same commodities brought in the open market.
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