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Old and New London
… was also held for one hour on Sunday evenings. A penny bank was opened three nights a week, and in six months … with a sick benefit society attached, formed by paying a penny a week, the use of a room for the temperance meetings … his appearance, and taking him for a poor man, gave him a penny. He took it, enjoying the jest, and ever after kept it …
Old and New London
… the wages of most of the artificers did not exceed one penny per day. On the demolition of the ancient inn, a new …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… there are 2 acres of impropriate glebe. Weston-Peverel, or Penny-Cross WESTON-PEVEREL, or Penny-Cross, a chapelry, in the parish of St. Andrew, …
A History of the County of Somerset
… manor rents totalled over £50 10 and £20 8 s. 7 d. moor penny ( morgabulum) rents 11 were received from the tenants … c. 1260 most tenants paid as much or more in moor in moor penny rent as for their tenements and the demesne estate … were onerous and worth more than rents. 13 By 1275 moor penny was no longer recorded separately, implying that the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Mary his widow, 1822, very similar to (7); (10) to Robert Penny, 1837, and Catherine his widow, 1847, … scrolled cartouche; (23) partly defaced to . . . and Taver Penny Esq., 1841, and another, white marble tablet formerly …
Old and New London
… purchasers were allowed to dip in a sack for old wigsa penny the dip. Noblemen's suits come here at last, after …
Old and New London
… the rooms as offensive, and the prisoners only receiving a penny loaf a day each. The steward received eightpence a day … of the "quality." In 1698 it was used for the drawing of a penny lottery, but in 1703, when it threatened to re-open, …
Survey of London
… their Mony as at a common Playhouse; nay even a twelve-penny gallery is builded for the convenience of his Majesty's …
Old and New London
… linen and woollen cloth, and leathern bags, with one penny, twopenny, threepenny, and fourpenny pieces of silver, …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… for the poor, to counteract the bad influences of the penny theatres, etc. Lord Shaftesbury took the chair, and …