quartern
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On March 5, 1801, the price of the quartern loaf stood as high as 1s.
From The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) by George C. (George Charles) Brodrick
And this yere was first the roial, half roial, and quartern aungel, and aungellet of golde.
From A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum by Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas
Out of this I had to pay ten pounds house-rent; at that time too every thing was dear; for a quartern of corn cost six pounds, and a quart of wine eight rapps.
From The Autobiography of Thomas Platter, a schoolmaster of the sixteenth century. by Thomas Platter
What title to gormandize over the butcher's fat joints, and the baker's quartern loaves, if they who furnish them are left to gnaw bones, and live upon crumbs?
From The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney
As if all the speeches of all the fools in Staffordshire would lower the quartern loaf!
From The Great House by Stanley John Weyman
