"Pinder" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... nothing for their horses, and their dinners cost them 4d. a head. Butter was sold by the lb., or the 'cake' of 2 lb., and in the beginning of Lent was 5d. a lb., by April 20, 3d., in the middle of May, 2-1/2d. When William Pinder took 50 acres of land 'of my Lord Haye' he paid a fine of L60 and a rent of L40; but this must have been an extremely choice piece of land, for arable land rented apparently at less than 3s. an acre.[315] ...
— A Short History of English Agriculture • W. H. R. Curtler |
