For thirteen weeks they had lived upon less than one shilling a head per week, and I am not sure that they did not pay the rent out of that; and now the income of the whole eleven is under 16s., with rent to pay.

Its cheapness surprised me: one shilling a quart bottle.

Duties were laid upon this article to assist in building St. Paul's Church, and fifty parish churches in London after the great fire; and in 1677, Charles II. granted to his natural son, Charles Lenox, Duke of Richmond, and his heirs, a duty of one shilling a chaldron on coals, which continued in his family till it was purchased by government in 1800.

Ten shillings a column is our magnificent rate of payment, and we can hardly afford that" Then he began pulling out one book and another from the piles of all sorts that lay around him.

These factory operatives, at the workhouse grounds, and in the quarries, are paid one shilling a daynot much, but much better than the bread of idleness; and for the most part, the men like it better, I am told.

Already in the years 551-554, and in the first instance apparently at the suggestion of Scipio, 6 -modii- (1 1/2 bush.) of Spanish and African wheat were sold on public account to the citizens of Rome at 24 and even at 12 -asses- (1 shilling 8 pence or ten pence).

But this time he wanted only fifteen shilling a performance.

"Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling Your ring?"

John Dunton in his Life says, that Mr. William Bradshaw received from Dr. Midgeley forty shillings a sheet for writing part of the Turkish Spy; but I do not find that he any where mentions Sault as engaged in that work.

These barkes be laden with all sorts of spices, with silke of China, with Sandols, with Elephants teeth, Veluets of Vercini, great quantity of Pannina, which commeth from Mecca, Chickinos which be pieces of golde woorth seuen shillings a piece sterling, with money, and with diuers sorts of other marchandize.

He could therefore live for one shilling and eightpence a dayeleven shillings a weekto which he would have to add six shillings a week for rent, altogether seventeen shillings a week.

In 1791 Sir William Pullency, an English speculator, bought 1,500,000 acres of land in Upper Canada at one shilling an acre, and sold 700,000 acres later for an average of eight shillings an acre.

Twelve shillings a yardnot a penny less.