364 John Barhor, of Salisbury, Brasier. 



stood the capital tenement devised to Peter Barber. This probably 

 consisted of a shop opening into Winchester Street with dwelling- 

 rooms over it. Beneath the gateway was a roadway leading to 

 vacant land, workhouses, and a garden. The workhouses probably 

 stood at the back of the shop with some open ground near them, 

 extending also in rear of the newly-constructed house, while the 

 garden stretched along the back of both properties behind the 

 vacant ground, from the garden of T. Knoel on the western side 

 to that of his tenant Adam called White, who occupied the next 

 house in Winchester Street on the eastern side, and was a man 

 with a wife named Matilda. 



A local investigator would doubtless be able to identify the 

 spot, and it is not unlikely that some of the features, which existed 

 five hundred years ago, may be found to be still recognizable. 



The prices and other sums of money named in these wills give 

 rise to certain questions. The sums are expressed in li. s. and d., 

 for librae, solidi, and denarii, meaning pounds, shillings, and pence, 

 but no such coins as pounds or shillings then existed. The coins 

 in use at the time seem to have been eight in number, namely, 

 three gold coins : — 



(1) A noble, worth 6s. Sd. or 80 pence. 



(2) A mark or half-noble, worth 3s. 4rf., or 40 pence. 



(3) A quarter noble, worth 20 pence. 



And five silver coins, namely : — 



(1) A groat, worth 4 pence. 



(2) A half-groat, worth 2 pence. 



(3) A penny. 



(4) A half-penny, represented by ob. for obolus, in old 



latin documents. 



(5) A farthing represented by qr., for quadrans. 



But the noble contained just about as much gold as a modern 

 sovereign, so that the intrinsic value of the coins was three times 

 as great as that of coins of the same denomination now. Moreover 

 their purchasing power was about twenty times as great. 



John Barbor's copper vessels priced at 4s., 5s., and 65. 8d., 



