**FARTHING**, a small English copper coin, amounting to one-fourth of a penny. It was anciently called *fourthing*, as being the fourth of the integer or penny.

**FARTHING of Gold**, a coin used in ancient times, containing in value the fourth part of a noble, or 2d. silver. It is mentioned in the stat. 9 Hen. V. cap. 7, where it is enacted, that there shall be good and just weight of the noble, half-noble, and farthing of gold.

**FARTHING of Land** seems to differ from **FARDING-deal**. For in a survey-book of the manor of West-Hapton in Devonshire, there is an entry thus: A. B., holds six farthings of land at 12l. per annum. So that Farthing, the farthing of land must have been a considerable quantity, far more than a rood.