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OE Wulfstan Homily: Be Mistlican Gelimpan (Hatton 113) in A. S. Napier Wulfstan (1883) 170 Swa æt heafde peninc, swa æt heorðe peninc, swa æt sulhgange peninc.

?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) ii. 134 Þei..left..þe lond on a forward dere to pay ilk a hede a peny to þam bi ȝere.

c1450 King Ponthus (Digby) in Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. (1897) 12 95 They be made tributorye, and euery hede pays a besaunt of gold.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Chron. xiii. C This is the nombre of the heades harnessed vnto the warre, which came to Dauid vnto Hebron.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Chron. xxiv. C Counted after the nombre of y^e names heade by heade.

1679 P. Rycaut Present State Greek Church 92 From every Papa, or Priest, [he receives] a Dollar yearly per Head.

1716 B. Church Entertaining Passages Philip's War i. 45 The Captain with his Company..received their Praemium, which was Thirty Shillings per head, for the Enemies which they had killed or taken.

1748 H. Walpole Let. 11 Aug. in Corr. (1941) IX. 70 A play at Kingston where the places are twopence a head.

1847 M. M. Sherwood Life xxi. 355 An anna a head for each boy.

1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest III. xi. 57 Except by taking the votes not by heads, but by tribes, cities, or cantons.

1892 W. Besant London ix. 467 The quantity of tea imported about this time amounted to no more than three-quarters of a pound per annum for every person in the three kingdoms, whereas it is now no less than thirty-five pounds for every head.

1958 P. Berton Klondike Fever iii. 137 Soon she was shuttling passengers to St. Michael at one thousand dollars a head.

1992 Observer 29 Nov. 51/1 They suffered their sixth home loss in front of a crowd a few heads short of 20,000.

2000 Independent 8 June i. 5/1 Delegates will start the day with a ‘coffee, tea and danish’ at £5.95 a head.