a. A sum of money equal to twelve pennies (now rare). † b. A coin of this value, a shilling (obs.). Also formerly abbreviated xij d.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Sel. Wks., III. 301. Men of lawe and jurours han non conscience to forswere hem for twel pens and her dyner.
1563. Child-Marriages, 60. Apon Midsomer even last, the said Thomas send a Token, videlicet a xijd. to the said Eleine.
1568. Satir. Poems Reform., xlviii. 58. Ȝour court-men heir hes maid my claith deir, And raisd it twell-pennis of the ell.
1622. Bacon, Hen. VII., 216. The Recoinage of Groats and Halfe-groats now Twelve-pences and Six-pences.
1665. in De Foe, Plague (1840), 41. Every of the said chirurgeons shall have twelvepence a body searched by them.
1864. Burton, Scot Abr., II. ii. 183. We … dined … very well for twelvepence a man.
