-
arrest followed his
eating 1.75
pounds (0.79 kg) of ham and beef, a half-
quartern loaf,
seven pats of
butter and
eleven cups of tea,
coming to 3s 6d, at a...
- the
stock runs out. Historically, the
loaves used were of the
archaic quartern loaf size, but this
particular part of the
tradition ended when Biddenden's...
-
quite full of water, and
about twenty-four
pieces of
bread ...
about a
quartern loaf". She
claimed to have
escaped by
removing a
board from a
window at the...
- the
present price of 60s. the
quartern loaf was 1s. and
therefore at 80s. one
third more, the
price of the
quartern loaf must be 1s. 4d." (13
March 1815)...
- Brown, a
baker in
Wigmore Street,
Cavendish Square, was to "give a
Quartern Loaf to
every Black in Distress, who will
apply on Sa****ay next between...
-
famine of the
closing years of the
eighteenth century, and
while the
quartern loaf stood at 2s. John had some
sharp straits to live through, the details...
