Vestigia Anglicana: Or, Illustrations of the More Interesting and Debatable Points in the History and Antiquities of England: from the Earliest Ages to the Accession of the House of Tudor, Том 2T. & G. Underwood, 1826 |
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... shillings ; other oxen , sixteen shillings ; a fat cow , twelve shillings ; a fat hog , two years old , three shillings and fourpence ; a fat wether , unshorn , twenty pence , if shorn , fourteen pence ; a fat goose , twopence halfpenny ...
... shillings ; other oxen , sixteen shillings ; a fat cow , twelve shillings ; a fat hog , two years old , three shillings and fourpence ; a fat wether , unshorn , twenty pence , if shorn , fourteen pence ; a fat goose , twopence halfpenny ...
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... shilling being merely a denomination of money , and not a coin till the reign of Henry the Seventh . In making the com- parison between the value of money in these middle ages and the present time , we must first consider the real ...
... shilling being merely a denomination of money , and not a coin till the reign of Henry the Seventh . In making the com- parison between the value of money in these middle ages and the present time , we must first consider the real ...
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... shillings , and each shilling into five pennies ; therefore , though the pound and the penny were of the same weight and value both before and after the Conquest , yet the shilling was a totally different sum , the Norman shilling ...
... shillings , and each shilling into five pennies ; therefore , though the pound and the penny were of the same weight and value both before and after the Conquest , yet the shilling was a totally different sum , the Norman shilling ...
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... shillings Saxon , equivalent to eighteen pounds . The average price of corn with the Anglo - Saxons is unknown : during a severe famine , in the reign of Ed- ward the Confessor , wheat rose to sixty pennies the quarter , which ...
... shillings Saxon , equivalent to eighteen pounds . The average price of corn with the Anglo - Saxons is unknown : during a severe famine , in the reign of Ed- ward the Confessor , wheat rose to sixty pennies the quarter , which ...
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... shilling . C P. - Did the strikingly contrasted reigns of the first and second Edward produce any material alteration or improvement in the general aspect of society in England ? A. Science and literature seem to have made no pro- gress ...
... shilling . C P. - Did the strikingly contrasted reigns of the first and second Edward produce any material alteration or improvement in the general aspect of society in England ? A. Science and literature seem to have made no pro- gress ...
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