A Table showing at one view, how many pounds, shillings, and pen- 

 nies, have been coined out of a pound of silver at different times in 



APPEN] 



Whatever the division of money may have been in England in the Anglo-Saxon 

 times, there Is no doubt that it has been the same ever since the reign of William 

 the Conqueror as at present, viz. twelve pennies in a shilling, which never was a 

 real coin till the year 1504, and twenty shillings in a pound, which, though not 

 'a real coin, was a real pound, containing twelve ounces of standard silver, till the 

 reign of Edwai-d I, from which period the weight of the nominal pound has gra- 

 dually been diminished, till it is now about one third of what it originally was. 



Before A.D. 1300 a pound of) 

 standard silver contained * J 



IN ENGLAND. 



Fine silver. 

 oz. dwt. 



^300 . 



1344 . 



1346 . 



1353 . 



1412 . 



1464 . 



1527 . 



1543 . 



1545 . 



1546 . 

 1549 . 

 155lt . 

 1 55 l,endof,") 



1552 J 



1553 . . 

 1560 . 

 1601 . 



28 Edw. I 

 ISEdw. Ill 

 20 Edw. Ill 

 27 Edw. Ill 

 13 Hen. IV 



4 Edw. IV 

 18 Hen. VIH 

 34 Hen. VIII 



36 Hen. VIII 



37 Hen. VIII 

 3 Edw. VI 



5 Edw. VI 



6 Edw. VI 



1 Mary 



2 Eliz. 

 43 Eliz. 



11 2 



11 

 11 

 11 

 11 

 11 

 11 

 11 



2 

 2 

 2 

 2 

 2 

 2 

 2 



Alloy, 

 oz. dwt. 



O 18 



O 18 

 O 18 

 O 18 

 O 18 

 O 18 

 O 18 

 O 18 



10 O 

 6 O 



4 

 6 

 3 





 O 

 



2 

 6 

 8 

 6 

 9 



O 

 

 

 O 

 O 



11 1 



11 

 11 



11 



o 



2 

 2 



19 



1 O 

 O 18 

 O 18 



£. s. d. 



1 o o 



1 O 3 



12 2 



1 2 6 



1 5 O 



1 10 O 



1 17 e 



2 5 

 2 8 

 2 8 



2 8 



3 12 O 

 3 12 O 



3 



3 



3 



3 2 



and so the money continues to this present time. 



N. B. These rates of English money are taken by Mr. Folkes from the indent- 

 ures made with the masters of the mint, and consequently may be depended on as 

 authentic. 



* During the reign of Stephen almost every 

 baron assumed the prerogative of coining, and there 

 •was of course n»uch bad money, and much con- 

 fiision in money transactions, till Heni7 II coined 

 a sufficient quantity of good money, and prohibited 

 the circulation of the bad. 



■\ Ifi. this lowest depretiation of the English mo- 



ney the value of the nominal poynd sterling was 

 only 4fi\ of modern money. The money was 

 at this time in such a state of confusion and fluc- 

 tuation that the sellers scarcely ever knew what- 

 value they were to receive for their goods. Some 

 entries respecting the money about this time in 

 King Edward's Journal are unintelli^ibloi 



