Roger North says that the Tories nicknamed the opposite party 'Birmingham Protestants, alluding to the false groats struck at that place'.

What e'er base metal come You coin as fast as groats at Bromingam.

A panegyric on the return of the Duke and Duchess of York from Scotland says of Shaftesbury's medal that 'Twas coined by stealth, like groats at Birmingham.

INGREDIENTS.1 tablespoonful of Robinson's patent groats, 2 tablespoonfuls of cold water, 1 pint of boiling water.

Mix the prepared groats smoothly with the cold water in a basin; pour over them the boiling water, stirring it all the time.

Here are two crack'd groats To helter-skelter at some vaulting-house.

Many, I say, such as these, there be, who know not where to get two groats, nor what they have to say to the people: but only because they have heard that the office of a Minister is the most noble and honourable employment in the world; therefore they (not knowing in the least what the meaning of that is), Orders, by all means, must have!

Robinson's "Patent" Groats, 2 ozs. castor sugar, 2 ozs. butter, 2 eggs.

Cream the butter and sugar, add the eggs, then the flour and groats, which should be mixed together.

1 heaped tablespoon Robinson's "Patent" Groats, 1 pint milk or water.

Mix the groats with a wineglassful of cold water, gradually added, into a smooth paste, pour this into a stew-pan containing nearly a pint of boiling water or milk, stir the gruel on the fire (while it boils) for ten minutes. 8.

To the one he comes like Tamburlain, with his black and bloody flag; but to the other his white one hangs out, and, upon the parley, rather than fail, he takes ten groats in the pound for his ransom, and so lets him march away with bag and baggage.

Millet is sixpence and barley three groats.

The poems of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries mention soups made of peas, of bacon, of vegetables, and of groats.

A heavy war-tax was levied per capita at the rate of three groats on male and female above the age of fifteen, and those who know the value of a groat will admit that it was too much.

After that they had groats.

I find they consumed: Three quarts of whole groats . . . . .

8 For several weeks of the autumn while the British were at Soissons, many of our officers and men came into Paris like this, on special missions or on special leave, and along the boulevards one heard all accents of the English tongue from John o' Groats to Land's End and from Peckham Rye to Hackney Downs.

Ten groats to set a bone broke, or out of joint; and for letting of blood, 1s.

Many a time hath he paid me from a sponging house; often hath he given me groats for sack, and for purges when sack hath undone me; and did I ever insult him to offer to repay him a penny?

Groats apiece, Groats apiece, Groats apiece, There sweet Sow-Gelder.

Groats apiece, Groats apiece, Groats apiece, There sweet Sow-Gelder.

Groats apiece, Groats apiece, Groats apiece, There sweet Sow-Gelder.

On his endeavouring to give the authorship the go-by, the old dame protested, "D'ye think, sir, I dinna ken my ain groats in ither folk's kail?" A conceited packman called at a farm-house in the west of Scotland, in order to dispose of some of his wares.

Dunmore, Lord, and Billy Cream. 'D'ye think I dinna ken my ain groats in ither folk's kail?' East Lothian minister and his betheral taking degrees at a northern college.