sixteenpence

The lord holds his court the first day in the year, and, to entitle those several townships to such right of estray, the shepherd of each township attends the court, and does fealty by bringing to the court a large apple-pie and a twopenny sweet cake, except the shepherd of Hewick, who compounds by paying sixteenpence for ale

A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton

Another chain was bought for sixteenpence in 1430-31 for a copy of Rationale Divinorum, which was given by one Rolder; but such gifts were few and far between.

Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages 1911

Cost me sixteenpence at least -- sixteenpence! two-and - eightpence, for there's back again.

Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures Douglas William Jerrold 1830

It appears by a statute of this reign, [v**] that goods bought for sixteenpence would sometimes be sold by the merchants for three shillings.

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary David Hume 1743

The result of these operations was that at the end of the war the funds standing to the credit of the Government of India in London had been swollen to the unprecedented figure of £106,000,000, a large proportion of which had to be paid back to India when, with the cessation of the abnormal conditions induced by the war, the balance of trade turned against her, and the rate of exchange had been raised from the legal standard of sixteenpence to the rupee to 2s. 5d.

India, Old and New Valentine Chirol 1890

Things is main an 'dear; four-pound loaves is at sixteenpence; an' there's a deal o 'talk on a famine i' t 'land; an' whaten a paid for my victual an 't' bed i 't' lean-to helped t 'oud woman a bit, -- an' she's sadly down i 't' mouth, for she cannot hear on a lodger for t 'tak' my place, for a 'she's moved o'er to t' other side o 't' bridge for t 'be nearer t' new buildings, an 't' grand new walk they're makin 'round t' cliffs, thinkin 'she'd be likelier t' pick up a labourer as would be glad on a bed near his work.

Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 3 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

Things is main an 'dear; four-pound loaves is at sixteenpence; an' there's a deal o 'talk on a famine i' t 'land; an' whaten a paid for my victual an 't' bed i 't' lean-to helped t 'oud woman a bit, -- an' she's sadly down i 't' mouth, for she cannot hear on a lodger for t 'tak' my place, for a 'she's moved o'er to t' other side o 't' bridge for t 'be nearer t' new buildings, an 't' grand new walk they're makin 'round t' cliffs, thinkin 'she'd be likelier t' pick up a labourer as would be glad on a bed near his work.

Sylvia's Lovers — Complete Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837