Not far from S Bennet Hoskyns, there was a labouring-man, that rose up early every day to goe to worke; who for a good while many dayes together found a ninepence in the way that he went. His wife wondering how he came by so much money, was afraid he gott it not honestlye; at last he told her, and afterwards he never found any more. (Aubrey)

Note: Sir Bennet Hoskyns was a seventeenth century English politician who represented Herfordshire