The stamped envelope to which you refer may have been an envelope so stamped on the prepayment in the New Carlisle Post Office, of three pence, the required charge for postage.
Thus ended the piddling project of reducing the duty on molasses from six pence a gallon, to five pence, four pence, three pence, two pence or a penny.
Their bread and ale commonly came to two pence or three pence; they had constantly cheese and pears for their last dish, both at dinner and supper; and always wine.
This was a very poor bargain--a crown for three pence!
But the Government insisted upon three pence worth of dignity; in other words, for the honor of the Crown, they resolved, that the colonists should pay three pence a pound, import duty.
The design was printed on the right upper corner of the envelope, "Three Pence" being in script type of a style then in vogue, and the border being a common type of loops.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "three pence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
