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Old and New London
… age of the Prince of Wales. The tickets were sold at three guineas each, yet Delphini was a loser by the speculation. In …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… Gray of London was installed in 1833. A man was paid 4 guineas to teach the choir in 1810. 5 Thomas Colston held the …
Survey of London
… from the ceiling. St Bartholomew's Hospital paid three guineas a year for the use of the bath by its patients, plus …
Old and New London
… To end the contest, they proposed to him a wager of twenty guineas that he had not courage enough to go alone at …
Old and New London
… annual tuition fees of boys not King's Scholars are thirty guineas a year, with an entrance fee of five guineas; while the fees for boarding, apart from tuition, are sixty-five guineas a year, with five guineas as an entrance fee. The …
Old and New London
… of the magnificent gates of the arch. Their cost was 3,000 guineas, and they are the largest and most superb in Europe, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the prizes contended for are the queen's plate of 100 guineas, the members' of 50 guineas, and the ladies' and tradesmen's plates. The course …
Old and New London
… lucky purchaser found, on unripping the clothes, eleven guineas of gold quilted in the waistband (eleven Queen Anne guineas), and a 30 bank-note, dated 1729, of which note the …
Old and New London
… the lungs. He talks a detestable cant language, calling guineas "megs," and half-guineas "smelts." Money, with him is "the ready," "the …