Library of Formatting Examples:Italics/20D

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further towards the West. Some wheat has been sold at Newbury-market
for 6<i>l.</i> a load (40 bushels); that is, at 3<i>s.</i> a bushel.

Pounds, shillings and pence

These are abbreviations, so if they are italicized in the image, their periods must be included within the markups. However, when an £ looks slanted (see next example), it's just stylized, not italicized, and should not be marked.