" You shall have the Bill, Mr. Brooke, per electioneering contest, and a seat outside Parliament as delivered, five thousand pounds, seven shillings, and fourpence" .
Take this groat (which is our last fourpence) and Simpkin, take a china pipkin; buy a penn'orth of bread, a penn'orth of milk and a penn'orth of sausages.
" When wheat is at twelve shillings the quarter, " says an ancient statute of Henry III. " then wastel bread of a farthing shall weigh eleven shillings and fourpence" .
I take no note of, it being of a frivolous character and lacking in the qualities of true poetry. I collected fourpence by the recital of " I remember, I remember" .
In the country brewery, therefore, the different taxes upon malt, beer, and ale, seldom amount to less than twenty-three shillings and fourpence, frequently to twenty-six shillings, upon the produce of a quarter of malt.