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  • Thumbnail for Edward Dando
    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...
    32 KB (3,778 words) - 17:59, 28 August 2024
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    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...
    31 KB (3,866 words) - 19:37, 18 October 2023
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    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...
    72 KB (10,054 words) - 15:33, 26 April 2024
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    Brown, a baker in Wigmore Street, Cavendish Square, was to "give a Quartern Loaf to every Black in Distress, who will apply on Saturday next between...
    18 KB (2,460 words) - 18:35, 17 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ely and Littleport riots of 1816
    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)...
    54 KB (6,569 words) - 20:49, 28 August 2024
  • 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...
    5 KB (721 words) - 17:51, 14 July 2024