1990, Joan Thirsk, Peter J. Bowden, C. G. A. Clay, Maurice Willmore Barley, J. A. Chartres, Chapters from The Agrarian History of England and Wales, 1500-1750, page 34
In the sixteenth century, when business was still carried on in open premises, the wooden pentice was a necessity of trade. It extended several feet into the street, as far as the 'eavesdropping' […] The right to erect 'standings' with 'balks' or counters beneath the pentice and to let them out to country folk on market days was sometimes a valuable privilege of burgage tenure.
2003, Sylvia Landsberg, The Medieval Garden, page 122
The twelve-foot ventilator shafts in the Law Courts wall were concealed behind a magnificent pentice designed by the architect, just as a pentice had linked the kitchens and hall of Henry III's nearby Clarendon Palace.
2005, Caroline M. Barron, London in the Later Middle Ages: Government and People 1200-1500, page 52
here it can be seen that the butchers displayed their wares on rails beneath an overhanging pentice whereas the fishmongers used trestle tables
2007, Linda Lear, Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature, page 210
When it was finished in 1906 the new wing had a pentice roof across the front, sheltering the door.