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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
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Sex-pen(n)y, -pennye, adj. [ME and e.m.E. vj peny (1426-7), sixpeny (1494-5); Sex num. and Penny n.] a. Priced or valued at sixpence. b. Sex-penny grote, a groat of the value of sixpence. —a. 1582 St. A. Baxter Bks. 30.
That na baxter … baike ony sex pennye braid and sell thame for fywe penneyis 1588 Glasgow B. Rec. I 121.
The sex penny laif salbe of xij vnce wecht 1589 St. A. Baxter Bks. 46.
That na brother of the craft sell to ony nychtbur sex penny braid for fyve penny braid —b. 1456 Acts (1597) i 39 b.
That the cuinȝioures … nouther cuinȝie demy … nor ȝit sex-penny-groates 1456 Misc. Bann. C. III 93.
In siluer … a hundreth pundis of sex peny grotis
