It is true that had I packed all my belongings in one huge box the same company would have conveyed them to the steamer for one and eightpence, which is the regular charge per package.
"America To-day, Observations and Reflections"
William Archer
Mr. Browning bought the whole for the value of eightpence, and it became the raw material of what appeared four years later as "The Ring and the Book."
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
As late as 1600, at Hartlepool, it was enacted, that anyone calling a member of the council a liar be fined eleven shillings and sixpence, if, however, the term false was used, the fine was only six shillings and eightpence.
"England in the Days of Old"
William Andrews