 | Edward Lutwyche Parker - 1851 - 464 halaman
...prevailed. The following is a list of the market prices of some of the principal articles of food : — A quarter of a dog, five shillings and sixpence. A dog's head, two shillings and sixpence. Horseflesh, per pound, one shilling and eightpence. A cat, four shillings and... | |
 | James Parton - 1855 - 466 halaman
...months they held out against a besieging army, so numerous that its slain numbered nine thousand. The besieged lost three thousand men. To such extremities...shillings and six-pence ; a dog's head, two and six-pence ; horse-flesh, one and six-pence per pound ; horse-blood, one shilling per quart ; a cat, four and... | |
 | James Parton - 1855 - 472 halaman
...months they held out against a besieging army, so numerous that its slain numbered nine thousand. The besieged lost three thousand men. To such extremities...market quotations of the times, we find items like these:—a quarter of a dog, five shillings and six-pence; a dog's head, two and sbc-pence; horse-flesh,... | |
 | James Parton - 1855 - 592 halaman
...extremities were they reduced, that among the market quotations of the times, we find items like these:—a quarter of a dog, five shillings and six-pence; a dog's head, two and six-pence; horse-flesh, one and six-pence per pound; horse-blood, one shilling per quart; a cat, four and six-pence;... | |
 | Cynthia Maria Little - 1893 - 280 halaman
...months they held out against a besieging army, so numerous that its slain numbered nine thousand. The besieged lost three thousand men. To such extremities...these: A quarter of a dog, five shillings and sixpence; horse-flesh, one and six-pence per pound; horse-blood, one shilling per quart; a cat, four and six-pence;... | |
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... Scotland. With what resolution and daring the people of Londonderry, during the ever-memorable siege of that city, fought and endured for Protestantism and freedom, the world well knows. For seven months they held out against a besieging army, so... 