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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… WINE was used in preference to that for BEER or ALE, and a GALLON was deemed to contain eight PINT, each pint equalled …
Calendar of Treasury Books
… of the imposition on imported strong waters at 8 d. per gallon comes to 684 l., or 27,684 l. in all, and that the … repay the abovesaid 684 l. for the moiety of the 8 d. per gallon on strong waters imported in case the same be by them … John Furley, merchants of London, on payment of 4 d. per gallon duty, to land brandies respectively belonging to them …
Calendar of Treasury Books
… 7 8 Imported Liquors 16,362 18 2 Strong Waters at 2 d. per gallon 9,469 3 8 Spirits from Wine or Cyder imported 95 17 8 … the Additional 9 d. and Double 9 d. 0 0 9 of the 2 s. per gallon on brandy 0 0 1 of the 9 d. for 99 years 1,625 19 5 of …
Calendar of Treasury Books
… Imported liquors 4,751 16 9 For strong waters at 2 d. per gallon 7,810 3 0 For spirits from Wine or Cider imported 73 7 … Wines 15,666 9 10 For the [appropriations on the 2 d. per gallon on brandy 33 15 2 For the Duty on fines received from …
A New History of London
… score 0 1 0 Pots of ditto, uncovered, the c. cast, qt. a gallon 0 2 0 Quales, the dozen 0 0 1 Quicksilver, the cwt. …
Chamber Accounts of the Sixteenth Century
… gallons and one [po]ttle of hippocras (ipocras) at 5s. the gallon 57s.6d., and for the runlet 6d., and for a firkin of …
Journal of the House of Lords
… bake their own Bread; and reckoning Flour at 1 s. 6 d. the Gallon, which is the present Price, or perhaps rather above …
Journal of the House of Lords
… at a Meeting held at Speenhamland, 6th May 1795. When the Gallon Loaf is Income should be For a Man For a Single Woman. …