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The statutable stipend of the Master was only £12 a year, though he had some other allowances, the total amount of which was equally trivial.
From St. John's College, Cambridge by New, E. H. (Edmund Hort)
For grammar the statutable amount was eightpence, for natural philosophy fourpence, and for logic threepence per term, and it was usual to reckon four terms to the year.
From The Customs of Old England by Snell, F. J. (Frederick John)
This he named the 'Destiny,' and he received no check in fitting her up to his desire; the King paid 700 crowns, as the usual statutable bounty on shipbuilding, without objection.
From Raleigh by Lang, Andrew
Mutimer was morally convinced that this was the case, and would vastly have enjoyed laying his former friend by the heels for the statutable six weeks, but satisfactory proofs were not to be obtained.
From Demos by Gissing, George
Consider the case of books, printed and manuscript, lent out to those on the borrowers' list, a list, be it observed, which, according to the lawyers, has not the least statutable warrant.
From Remarks on the practice and policy of lending Bodleian printed books and manuscripts by Chandler, Henry W.
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