Despite the complexity of making the map, Beck was paid just five guineas for the work.

Prices varied from three guineas (£ as of ),( two for a woman ) per day, £ 1 per day, five shillings per day, down to one shilling (£ as of ), per day.

He is said to have paid the burgesses of Stafford five guineas apiece for the honour of representing them.

The entrance fee, i. e. the purchase price of a share, was in early days usually a guinea, but rose sharply as the century advanced, often reaching four or five guineas during the French wars ; the annual subscription, during the same period, rose from about six shillings to ten shillings or more.

In 1709 he made five hundred guineas by furnishing the spectacle for Motteux's opera Tomyris, Queen of Scythia.

Queen Anne five guineas were subsequently produced in 1705, 1706, 1709, 1711, 1713 and 1714.

His guineas are notable for using five different portraits of the king, and the 1714 coin is notable for declaring him to be Prince Elector of the Holy Roman Empire.

According to legend, he urged General Washington ( or, in some versions, the Marquis de Lafayette ) to fire on his own home, the Nelson House, where Cornwallis had his headquarters, offering five guineas to the first man to hit his house.

The Company continues to support higher education through exhibitions ( grants ) to university students, a practice which began in 1603 when four ' poor scholars ', two at Oxford and two at Cambridge, were awarded five guineas each per annum.

They were also extremely popular in Victorian England, and one could easily fetch five guineas, equivalent to over £ 500 today.

In their wills, the sisters left five pieces of land in the Biddenden area comprising around in total to the local church, with the income from these lands ( claimed to have been 6 guineas per annum at the time of their death ) to provide an annual dole of bread, cheese and beer to the poor every Easter.

Spurred by alcohol, he decides to auction off his wife and baby daughter, Elizabeth-Jane, to a sailor, Mr. Newson, for five guineas.

Henchard sends her a gift of five guineas ( the amount for which he sold her to Newson, and which is no doubt substantially less than what he sent his mistress Lucetta when breaking off the affair ) and sets her up as a genteel new arrival to town.

One of the earliest people to cultivate it in Europe was Sir John Colliton of Exeter in Devon ; scaffolding and tubs surrounded his tree, where gardeners propagated its branches by layering, the daughter plants initially selling for five guineas each ( but later falling to half a guinea ).

In May 1795, the antiquarian and topographer John Swete spent some time in Dawlish and reported that although not long ago it had been no more than a fishing village, and the best lodging house would not cost more than half a guinea per week, it was now so fashionable that " in the height of the season, not a house of the least consequence is to be hired for less than two guineas a week, and many of them rise to so high a sum as four or five.

He was by the unraced, Goldcourt, who stood at a stud fee of five guineas, but he did sire two Irish Grand National winners.

We are informed by Dr. George Winter, that a person named Holloway, by giving lectures on animal magnetism at five guineas for each pupil, realised a considerable fortune ; and the house of Mr. Loutherbergs, another magnetic professor, at Hammersmith, about the year 1790, was daily for many months crowded with patients.

Until the second half of the 18th century, watches were luxury items ; as an indication of how highly they were valued, English newspapers of the 18th century often include advertisements offering rewards of between one and five guineas merely for information that might lead to the recovery of stolen watches.

The entry fee was five guineas per player with a five guineas sidestake.

" Just as the statue seems on the point of being sold for five hundred guineas, Schuppanzeigh's true identity is discovered, and everyone turns on him in outrage.

The new system consisted of five coins: the aureus / solidus, a gold coin weighing, like its predecessors, one-sixtieth of a pound ; the argenteus, a coin weighing one ninety-sixth of a pound and containing ninety-five percent pure silver ; the follis, sometimes referred to as the laureatus A, which is a copper coin with added silver struck at the rate of thirty-two to the pound ; the radiatus, a small copper coin struck at the rate of 108 to the pound, with no added silver ; and a coin known today as the laureatus B, a smaller copper coin struck at the rate of 192 to the pound.

At the top is a suspender of five graduated gold rays.

In 1997, the United States Mint issued a Jackie Robinson commemorative silver dollar, and five dollar gold coin.

Weissmuller was one of the world's fastest swimmers in the 1920s, winning five Olympic gold medals for swimming and one bronze medal for water polo.

In all he won five Olympic gold medals and one bronze medal, fifty-two United States National Championships, and set sixty-seven world records.

The valuation of the Koh-i-Noor is given in the legend that one of Nader Shah's consorts supposedly said, " If a strong man should take five stones, and throw one north, one south, one east, and one west, and the last straight up into the air, and the space between filled with gold and gems, that would equal the value of the Koh-i-noor.

The large gold medallion from the Academy won in 1767 included a travel stipend, which he waited five years to receive.

Seemingly untouched by the Paris heat wave, Nurmi won all his races and returned home with five gold medals, but embittered, as Finnish officials had refused to enter him for the 10, 000 m.

Nurmi had won five gold medals in five events, but he left the Games embittered as the Finnish officials had allocated races between their star runners and prevented him from defending his title in the 10, 000 m, the distance that was dearest to him.

Whereas the previous five Rush albums sold platinum or better, Hold Your Fire only went gold in November 1987, although it managed to peak at number 13 on the Billboard 200.

As a result, Yeshaq was forced to withdraw towards the Blue Nile over the next five months, while Jamal ad Din's forces pursued them and looted much gold on the way, although no engagement ensued.

After the 1972 season, European long track skaters founded a professional league, International Speedskating League, which included Ard Schenk, three-time Olympic gold medallist in 1972, as well as five Norwegians, four other Dutchmen, three Swedes, and a few other skaters.

Georg Hackl of Germany at the Olympics | Germany is the most successful Olympic luger, having won five medals, of which three are gold medals attained in three consecutive Olympics.

Other guilds presented scenes appropriate to their trade: the building of the Ark from the carpenters ' guild ; the five loaves and fishes parable from the bakers and the adoration, with its offerings of gold, frankincense and myrrh, from the goldsmiths.

* Georg Hackl, first Winter Olympics competitor to win five consecutive medals with consecutively two silver and three gold medals in the men's single luge event

The olive / gold pattern is broken up by five darker saddles that extend to the upper sides.

The award was given every five years to an art student who created the best work, and was accompanied by a gold medal.

Her streak of five consecutive gold Top 10 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 ended when the album's first single, " Something Better to Do ", stopped at No. 13 ( also No. 19 Country and No. 1 AC ).

Each celebrity's section featured a bar with five gold stars in it, and if the wheel stopped in the starred area, the potential Head-To-Head Match payout was doubled.

An older man, he stole $ 200, 000, 000 worth of gold bricks in a heist that resulted in five deaths.

He helped Dallas win five Eastern Conference titles, two NFC titles, played in two Super Bowls, and was instrumental in Dallas ' first ever Super Bowl victory in 1972, making Hayes the only person to win both an Olympic gold medal and a Super Bowl ring.

She won five gold medals: in running for 60, 100, 200 and 400 metres, as well as long jump.

When he learns about Pinocchio's poor father, he gives the marionette five gold pieces for Geppetto.

The state crown of Henry VII had five fleurs-de-lis, five crosses and two arches topped by a gold orb and cross.