In addition to a goodly meal with wine and beer, a quartern of tobacco, one-fifth of a pound, was gotten through and a shilling paid out to 'ye man of the bowling green'.

We have given away, Mrs. Corney, we have given away a matter of twenty quartern loaves and a cheese and a half, this very blessed afternoon; and yet them paupers are not contented.'

So to keep herself warm, she thought it no sin to fetch for herself a quartern of ..." The audience shouted back the last word, "gin" with glee, and Grimaldi would scold them in a shocked tone: "Oh!

Again in 1340, Henry Vitele, received absolution for violation of the liberty of the Church of Rochester, by distraint of the Bishop's tenants in Halling, he was to offer up one quartern of wax at the same altar.

In fact, Nature points out that the amount of alcohol per traditional, yeast loaf is so small that "a man who eats twenty quartern [i.e., four-pound] loaves has therein consumed an amount of alcohol which is commonly contained in one bottle of port!"