Any number of farthings is as many mils and as many twenty-fourths of a mil.
"A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)"
Augustus de Morgan
Secondly, he assumes that the penny, such as it now is, will remain, as a coin of estimation, after it has ceased to be a coin of exchange; and that the mass of the people will continue to think of prices in old pence, and to calculate them in new ones, or else in new mils.
"A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)"
Augustus de Morgan
Two others from Stowmarket were tried, "Goody mils" and "Goody Low."
"A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718"
Wallace Notestein