Find myself £43 worse than I was the last month ... chiefly arisen from my layings-out in clothes for myself and wife; viz., for her, about £12, and for myself, £55 or thereabouts.
Samuel PEPYS (1858). “Diary and correspondance of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.,secretary to the admiralty in the Reigns of Charles II and James II”, p.53
