[Ads-l] "50l." (was: Able Was I Ere I Saw Elba)

[Martin Purdy]

50l. will be 50 pounds - an italic "l" was a common alternative to the £ sign until at least the late 1800s.  Not sure I've seen it in any 20th-century sources.
Martin 
 

    On Wednesday, April 7, 2021, 02:42:38 AM GMT+12, Stephen Goranson <goranson at duke.edu> wrote:  
 
Sept. 1793, The Kentish Register, p. 59. Letter to the Editor, and including the John Taylor, Water-Poet attribution, who was said to have offered a money reward (50l. [?])for a better English example.
SG

  

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