- The
uniform fourpenny post was a short-lived
uniform pre-paid
letter rate in
United Kingdom of
Great Britain and
Ireland that
lasted for 36 days from...
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heavy penalties on
blasphemous and
seditious publications;
imposing a
fourpenny stamp act on many
pamphlets to cut down the flow on news and criticism...
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losses of the Post Office. Hill
convinced Parliament to
adopt the
Uniform Fourpenny Post
whereby a flat 4d per half
ounce rate (equivalent to 10s 8d per pound...
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variation of plot
details (the
French title literally translates as "the
fourpenny opera"). A
planned English version went unproduced. The two
existing versions...
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other silver fourpenny pieces since the
reign of
William and Mary have had a
crowned numeral "4" as the reverse,
including the
silver fourpenny Maundy money...
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reform started when
postage rates were
revised by the short-lived
Uniform Fourpenny Post.
Rowland Hill, an
English teacher,
inventor and
social reformer,...
- The
British fourpence coin,
sometimes known as a groat, "joey" or
fourpenny bit, is a
silver coin
worth 1⁄60 of one
pound or 1⁄3 of one shilling. It is...
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alloy from 1845 to 1937 and a 12-sided
bronze coin from 1937 to 1971.
Fourpenny bit (value: four pence) ˈfɔːp(ə)ni Joey UK: Also
known as "groat", from...
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uniform rate that was put into
effect with the
introduction of the
Uniform Fourpenny Post
supplanted by the
Uniform Penny Post in 1839 and 1840.
Colby was...
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Midsummer Madness, 1880 The Hondekoeter, 1880 Cry of Pea****, 1883 Francie's
Fourpenny Foreigner, 1888 Four-In-Hand Forsyte, 1890 The
Sorrows of Tweetyman, 1895...
