Rennes
Americannoun
noun
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"Faultes escaped in the Printing, correcte with your pennes; omitted by my neglygence, overslippe with patience; committed by ignorance, remit with favour."
From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Ellacombe, Henry Nicholson
So that you maye se that the lowest lyne serueth for pennes, the next aboue for shyllynges, the thyrde for poundes, and the fourth for scores of poundes.
From The Earliest Arithmetics in English by Steele, Robert
But here you se the pennes stande toward ye ryght hande, and the other encreasynge orderly towarde the lefte hande.
From The Earliest Arithmetics in English by Steele, Robert
Fyrst 127 b. *bycause I can not diuide the 68 by 160, therfore I wyll turne the poundes into pennes by multiplicacion, so shall there be 16320 d’.
From The Earliest Arithmetics in English by Steele, Robert
Thou might'st bee proud, great Lord, of my abundance, For in this beautie I shall more renowne Our noble progenie then all the pennes Of the best Poets that ere writ of men.
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 4 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)
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