OE Will of Wulfgeat (Sawyer 1534) in D. Whitelock (1930) 54 Þæt is þonne þæt he geann ærest Gode his sawelscættas, þæt is I hid æt Tærdebicgan & I pund penega, & VI & twentig freotmonna for his sawle, & into Wigeracæstre an bryþen mealtes healf of Dunnintune healf of Cylleshale, & into sancte Æþelbrihte healfes pundes weorð & into sancte Guðlace healfes pundes weorð.
c1460 in A. Clark (1907) 170 (MED) If oony þynge lacke to be performed x pownde worthe [L. siquid defuerit ad perficiendas decem libratas], I schall performe hit.
a1475 in A. Clark (1906) ii. 668 (MED) Of the yifte of Robert, Erle of leyceter, thre pounde-worthe of lond in Halso.
a1500 (Cambr.) (1949) 974 (MED) He haþ gyf vs by band An c pownd worþ of land.
1501 Marriage Indenture in (MS.) 27 Mar. Ane hundretht pundiswortht of land of ald extent within the saidis lordschippis of Lorne and Ergile.
1674 R. Godfrey 39 Having Amalgamiz'd many pounds worth of Gold with Mercury.
1698 (Royal Soc.) 20 52 The whole Heard was near Two Hundred and Fifty, about Forty died: They all acknowledged that he did them above a Hundred Pound's Worth of Good.
1783 J. Berridge Let. 3 Oct. in (1864) 430 Mr. John Raymond's great house, with his woolhouse..and two thousand pounds worth of wool.
1839 C. Dickens xxxiv. 330 I'd take sixteen hundred pound worth if I could get 'em, and be as fond of every individual twenty pound among 'em as nothing should equal it!
1844 7 206 A pound's worth of silver in a card-purse.
1925 A. Loos 127 Sir Francis Beekman sent me 10 pounds worth of orchids every day.
1999 25 May 45/1 A few pounds worth of food is a drop in the ocean when you think of the store's profits.