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TALLY , an old See also:

device, now obsolete, formerly used in the See also:English See also:exchequer for the purpose of keeping accounts. The tally was a See also:willow or See also:hazel stick about one See also:inch in See also:depth and thickness, and roughly shaped like a thick See also:knife-blade (see Fig. 1). Notches (see Fig. 2) were cut on it showing the amount el3kegA paid, a gauged width of 12 inches representing Li000, 1 inch £100, s inch £ro, See also:half a notch of this See also:size representing £1; 136 inch Is., and the smallest notch 1d.; half-pennies were See also:rep-resented by small holes. The See also:account of the transaction was written on the two opposite sides, the piece of See also:wood being then split down the See also:middle through the notches; one half, called the tally, being given as a See also:form of See also:receipt to the See also:person making the See also:payment, while the other half, called the See also:counter-tally, was kept in the exchequer. Payments made into the exchequer were entered into an account-See also:book, from which they were trans- ln. Qinn ,See also:ems. . 4 r _ y Jz. See also:tiara at ./el/p-y . See also:October 1834 the houses of See also:parliament were burnt down by the overheating of the stoves through using too many of the tallies. The so-called tally-See also:trade was an old See also:system of dealing carried on in See also:London and in the manufacturing districts of See also:England, by which shopkeepers furnished certain articles on See also:credit to their customers, the latter paying the stipulated See also:price for them by weekly or monthly instalments (see M`Culloch, See also:Dictionary of See also:Commerce)—the precursor, in fact, of the See also:modern See also:instalment system.

See S. R. Scargill-See also:

Bird, See also:Guide to the Public Records (See also:Calendar of See also:State Papers) ; H. See also:Hall, Curiosities and Antiquities of the Exchequer.

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