Search
A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds
… his father; rent to them and their successors, 12 s. for a pittance to the convent on the anniversaries of his father …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… slain and certain hurt; that the soldiers are put to their pittance, which is slender; and that there is great want of …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… two and three days a week, and for the rest a small pittance of salt beef or bacon; and many times when they have …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… nation. Our men fall into strange conceits of the small pittance they have after so long patience as they have …
Final Concords of the County of Lincoln
The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons
… is very hard to make such a poor Man pay out of the poor Pittance of Wages he receives for his daily Support, as much …
Calendar of letter-books of the city of London
… cask, and on flesh days a dish of meat ( ferculum) and a pittance ( pietanciam), whilst on fish days it would similarly provide a dish of fish and a pittance; for each of his servants, every day, two loaves of …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the secular clergy. In 1290 Bishop Swinfield gave them a pittance of 4 s., which possibly indicates a community of 12 … gave 10 marks towards their building fund and in 1283 a pittance of 13 s. 4 d. (probably for 2 days), which suggests …