1. A 'Bawbee' is a term for a halfpence or ha'penny, especially in Scotland

2. About the month of September, I received a letter from my dear,which acquainted me that the poor condemned persons had felt theutmost severity of the law, for the mean value of three halfpence,which neither of them had received, I confess I was much Astonishedwhen I considered how very common it is with men, sportingly to ask apint of ale, or