We have two officers, annually chosen, by the name of leather-sealers, from a power given them by ancient charter, to mark the vendible hides; but now the leather-sealers have no duty, but that of taking an elegant dinner.
"An History of Birmingham (1783)"
William Hutton
My front-window looked out upon a long, straggling, ill-paved street, with its due proportion of mud-heaps, and duck pools; the houses on either side were, for the most part, dingy-looking edifices, with half-doors, and such pretension to being shops as a quart of meal, or salt, displayed in the window, confers; or sometimes two tobacco-pipes, placed "saltier-wise," would appear the only vendible article in the establishment.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
This was unnecessary in Ugogo, where the people voluntarily brought every vendible they possessed to the camp.
"How I Found Livingstone"
Sir Henry M. Stanley