Then followed a mercer, a lawyer's wife, an oil merchant, a bakerall well-to-do people; and all turned him away, some with excuses, others by denying him admittance; a few even pretended not to know what he meant.

You must get me as much more against to-morrow; for then my friend at court is to pay his mercer.

personally canvassed the Borough of Windsor against the Whig candidate, Admiral Keppel, and propitiated a silk-mercer by calling at his shop and saying, "The Queen wants a gownwants a gown.

I wish it was like Sir Amyrald's time, when they shot the York mercer that came to dun him, and no one ever took anyone to task about it; and now they can pelt you at any distance they please through the post; and fellows lose their spirits and their appetite and any sort of miserable comfort that is possible in this odious abyss.