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forty‐shilling freeholder
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History
forty‐shilling freeholder, a person who met one of the qualifications for the electoral...potential check on fictitious valuations, and ‘40‐shilling freeholder’ was a synonym for the poorest class of voter...
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franchise
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History
...1542 gave the vote to 40‐shilling freeholders . The two MPs for Trinity...In 6 manor boroughs the 40‐shilling freeholders voted. Finally there were...corporation, freemen, and 40‐shilling free‐holders. One hundred...
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Fiction, English Occult
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...forerunners of today's paperback books sold at sixpence or a shilling each and were known as "bluebooks" (from the blue paper covers) or "shilling shock-ers." Shilling shockers went out of fashion around the opening of the nineteenth...
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Somalia
Encyclopedia entry from: Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations
...Somalia Hanolato (Long Live Somalia). MONETARY UNIT: The Somali shilling (sh) of 100 cents is a paper currency. There are coins of 1, 5, 10, and 50 cents and 1 shilling, and notes of 5, 10, 20, 100, 500, and 1,000 shillings. sh1...
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Covent Garden
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...Owing to the high cost of the rebuilding Kemble abolished the shilling gallery, which led to the famous OP (Old Prices) Riots...about two months, Kemble was forced to submit and restore the shilling gallery. Between 1809 and 1821 most of the famous actors of...
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Philips, John
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...John (1676–1709), the author of The Splendid Shilling (unauthorized 1701, authorized 1705), a burlesque in Miltonic...which Philips contrasts the happy possessor of the splendid shilling with the poor poet in his garret. In 1705 he published Blenheim...
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Alexis Benoît Soyer
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...sauces, innumerable kitchen utensils, and several types of stove. His publications include The Pantropheon; or, History of Food (1853) and A Shilling Cookery (1854). Bibliography: See H. Morris, Portrait of a Chef (1938).
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Stamp Act
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
...demurrer, or other pleading in any court of chancery or equity within the said colonies and plantations, a stamp duty of one shilling and six pence. For every skin or piece of vellum or parchment or sheet or piece of paper on which shall be engrossed, written...
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Western Europe
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...a value of 12d (denari), as was the French gros tournois (12 deniers ), from 1266; but England did not issue such a "shilling coin," known as the teston, until 1504. By that time, the English pound sterling (20s) contained, or was worth, only...
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Cotton Industry
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...between 1786 and 1882, the labor and capital cost of producing one pound of yarn went from thirty-four shillings to one shilling. Second, the use of cheap slave labor in the United States lowered the costs of cotton picking (cotton along with sugar...
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