A Table of English Silver Coins from the Norman Conquest to the Present Time: With Their Weights, Intrinsic Values, and Some Remarks Upon the Several Pieces |
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A Table of English Silver Coins from the Norman Conquest to the Present Time ... Martin Folkes No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 59 - ... a privy mark in all the money that they made, as well of gold as of silver, so that at another time they might know, if need were, which moneys of gold and silver, among other moneys, were of their own making, and which not.
Page 3 - Conqueror introduced no new ** weight into his mints, but that the fame " weight ufed there for fome ages, and called ** the pound of the Tower, was the old pound of " the Saxon moneyers before the conqueft. ** This pound was lighter than the Troy pound ** by three quarters of an ounce Troy...
Page 59 - ... the moneys from which they were not yet discharged might be distinguished from those for which they had already received their quietus : which new mark they then continued to stamp upon all their moneys, until another trial of the pix also gave them their quietus concerning those.
Page 59 - And whereas, after every trial of the pix at Westminster, the masters and workers of the mint, having there proved their moneys to be lawful and good, were immediately entitled to receive their quietus under the great...
Page 84 - ... all, their plate, and a considerable sum of money, which was sent as a present to his majesty from several of the heads of colleges, out of their own particular stores; some scholars coming with it, and helping to procure horses and carts for the service; all which came safe to Nottingham, at the time when there appeared no more expectation of a treaty, and contributed much to raising the dejected spirits of the place.
Page 31 - Marry he espied a piece of divinity in that policy, he threatneth them God's vengeance for it. He went to the root of the matter, which was covetousness ; he espied two points in it, that either it came of covetousness, which became him to reprove : or else that it tended to the hurt of poore people ; for the naughtiness of the silver was the occasion of dearth of all things in the realm.
Page 60 - ... how it comes to pafs, that, among the pieces that are dated as well as marked, three or more different dates are fometimes found upon pieces...
Page 59 - Exchequer : before whom a tryal is made, by a jury of goldfmiths impanelled and fworn for that purpofe, of the collective weights, of certain parcels of the feveral pieces of gold and filver taken at random from thofe contained in the pix ; after which thofe parcels being feverally melted...
Page 59 - Handard gold and (landard filver, made with the greateft care, and delivered in upon oath, from time to time .as there is occafion, by a jury of the...
Page 59 - ... and workers of the mint, in the indentures made with them, " to make a privy mark in all the money that they made, as well of gold as of...