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Court, but as they were apparently in common use it is not 

 out of place to include them. 



Warburton thus gives :— Tournois. 



liv. sol. den. 



Un noble, paiement d'Angleterre 368 



Do. paiement de Guernesey 3 1 6 



Un noble monnoie 2 4 o 



Un ecu monnoie I 2 O 



Un gros sterling, paiement d'Angleterre o 3 4 



Un gros monnoie o o 10 



Un estling o 9 o 



Un sol sterling, paiement d'Angleterre o 10 O 



Do. paiement de Guernesey o 9 o 



Also Fardm (1) sterling — Liard (2) , monnoie de France — Maille 

 sterling — denier sterling — noires Mailles — sterling monnoie 

 ■ — Carolus monnoie. 



Berry adds the following coins : — 



Florin d'Hollande — Florin d'or d'Hollande — Livre, sol 

 and denier de gros d'Hollande — Franc d'or — Noble d'or — 

 Ecu monee, rente seigneuriale — Denier sterling, payement 

 d'Angleterre— Obolle (3) . 



There was a coin of Guernsey extraction which is often met 

 with in documents of the Middle Ages — the freluque or fur- 

 luque, and it seems to have been in general circulation, as in' 

 1 61 9 an Ordinance was passed prohibiting the coinage of fre- 

 luques by unauthorized persons, and the circulation of those 

 not of proper standard was forbidden. This prohibition 

 evidently did not hit the intended mark, or rather I should 

 say, some unexpected result followed, as four years later (4) the 

 Governor is petitioned to appoint a person to coin Freluques, 

 " in order to preserve the ancient privilege of the Island," 

 showing that Guernsey even then claimed the privilege of a 

 Sovereign State to issue her own coinage, which right she 

 has preserved to the present day, though it is limited to 

 copper coinage. 



This is the last mention of these Freluques and one may 

 question the practical value of going to so much trouble as 

 to pass Ordinances for the circulation or prohibition of such 

 of a coin which was only worth i-28th of a penny sterling, 

 or \ denier. 



The value of the denier, that is the denier sterling, 

 appears to have varied. In 171 3 it was valued at 15 to the 

 sol tournois: in 1718 at 14: in 1723 at 16 and later in the 

 same year at 20. 



(1) Presumably "a'farthing. (2) The equivalent of the double, 



(3) Apparently another name for the freluque. 



(4) Receuil d'Qrdonnanees I. H9. 



