"Pd" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... for disbursements for ye Gallows. Burning and boiling ye Rebels, executed p. order L116 4s. 8d. Paid Mr. Mayers att ye Beare, for so much hee pd. for setting up of a post with ye quarters of ye Rebells att ye town end as p. his ...
— From John O'Groats to Land's End • Robert Naylor and John Naylor
... begins thus:—April 9, 1776, "Pd. Short for 6 dozen sparw heds," and the sparw heds are repeated all down the page, varied with what would shock the H. H.—3d. for foxheads. Also "expenses ad visitation" 9s. 6d., and at the bottom of the page, the parish is thus mentioned as creditor ...
— Old Times at Otterbourne • Charlotte M. Yonge
... "Pd to Mr. Sanders for the yearly rent of the Laystall and skowringe the harnes[14] for his ...
— Notes and Queries 1850.02.23 • Various
... used in church for disinfecting or deodorizing purposes. The churchwardens' accounts of St. Peter's, Barnstaple, for 1741 contain the entry: "Pd. for Tobacco and Frankincense burnt in the Church 2s. 6d." Sprigs of juniper, pitch, and "sweete wood," in combination with incense, were often ...
— The Social History of Smoking • G. L. Apperson
... Bolingbroke's. Lady Strafford speaks of her having lately (November 1711) "been in pickle for her sins," at which she was not surprised. Before the Earl succeeded to the title, Lady Wentworth wrote to her son: "It's said Lord Villors Lady was worth fower scoar thoussand pd; you might have got her, as wel as Lord Villors.... He (Lord Jersey) has not don well by his son, the young lady is not yoused well as I hear amongst them, which in my openion is not well." Wentworth Papers ...
— The Journal to Stella • Jonathan Swift |
