obs. abbrev. L. libra pound, libræ pounds.
c. 1450. ME. Med. Bk. (Heinrich), 82. Take iij lī [sic] of rosyn, and .i. lī of wax.
c. 1489. Caxton, Sonnes of Aymon, xiv. 322. Here is xx. li of money.
1521. Pilton Churchw. Acc. (Som. Rec. Soc.), 74. For a li and a q. wexe.
1634. R. Verney, Let. J. Dillon, in Forster, Gr. Remonstr. (1860), 256. He was fined in foure thousand pounds by some, by others in 5,000li, in 6,000li, in 10,000li.