664 
MONEY. 
Table fliowing the Standard Weight, Value, and comparative View, of English Silver Money, from 
A. D. 1066 to A. D. 1817. 
Dates of the feveral Mint 
Indentures. 
Kings and Queens. 
William Cona. 
William Rufus 
Edward I. 
Edward III. 
Richard II. - 
Henry IV. 
Henry VI. 
Edward IV. 
Edward V. 
Henry VII. 
Henry VIII. 
!} 
Edward VI. 
Mary I. 
Elizabeth 
James I. 
Charles I. 
Charles II. 
James II. 
George I. 
George III. 
A.D. 
1066 
10S7 
1300 
134-7 
1354 
1395 
1402 
1412 
1422 
1422 
1426 7 
1446 1 
146O 
1464 [ 
1482 y 
14831 
1494J 
1505 
5 1509 7 
1 1532 i 
1543 
1545 
15467 
1547 J- 
1548 3 
1549 
1551 
1553 
5 ^60 7 
71583} 
1601 
16051 
1627 | 
1661 V 
1671 { 
1685 
1720 I 
■ 1764J 
1816 
Number 
Standard of the 
of Shil- 
ings, &c. 
Weight of 
Weight of 
Value of the 
Proportion 
Value of 
the Ounce 
Silver 
Peri 
t each 
od. 
in the 
Pound 
Troy, of 
Standard 
Silver 
i wenty 
Shillings in 
reckoning of 
Standard 
Silver at 
Fine Silver 
.contained 
in Twenty 
Shillings at 
each Period. 
fame Twenty 
Shillings in 
reckoning of 
our prefent 
Money. 
of Money 
at each 
Period to 
that of 
our prefent 
Money. 
of the then 
Standard 
Silver to 
that of our 
prefent 
Value of 
the Ounce 
FineSilver 
at each 
Period. 
Fine 
Alloy. 
at each 
Money. 
Silver. 
Period. 
oz. dw 
oz. dw. 
i. 
d. 
oz. dw. 
g r - 
OZ. 
dw. 
g r - 
£ 
s. 
d. 
s. 
d. 
s. 
d. 
II 2 
018 
; 21 
4 
11 5 
O 
10 
8 
3 
2 
18 
2-9062 
5 
2 
I 
ii£ 
I I 2 
018 
20 
O 
12 O 
O 
11 
2 
O 
3 
2 
O 
3 'iooq 
5 
2 
I 
9 i 
I I 2 
0 18 
20 
3 
II 17 
I 
10 
J 9 
6 
3 
I 
2! 
3-0614 
5 
2 
I 
95 
I I 2 
018 
22 
6 
10 13 
8 
9 
17 
8 
2 
15 
if 
2'7557 
5 
2 
2 
°i 
II 2 
018 
25 
O 
9 12 
0 
8 
17 
1*5 
2 
9 
7 i 
2-4802 
5 
2 
2 
3 
11 2 
018 
32 
O 
7 10 
0 
6 
18 
18 
I 
18 
9 
i ‘937 5 
5 
a 
2 
iof 
II 2 
018 
30 
O 
8 0 
0 
7 
8 
0 
2 
I 
4 
2'o666 
5 
2 
2 
8* 
I I 2 
018 
37 
6 
6 8 
0 
5 
18 
30 
I 
13 
°l 
1-6531 
5 
2 
3 
4 l 
II 2 
018 
30 
O 
8 0 
0 
7 
8 
0 
2 
I 
4 
2 'o 666 
S 
2 
2 
II 2 
0 18 
37 
6 
6 8 
0 
5 
18 
IO 
I 
n 
of 
1-6531 
5 
2 
3 
4 f 
II 2 
0 18 
40 
0 
6 0 
0 
5 
I I 
O 
I 
II 
0 
1-5500 
5 
2 
3 
7? 
II 2 
0 18 
45 
0 
5 6 
16 
4 
18 
6 
I 
7 
H 
1-3776 
5 
2 
4 
of 
IO O 
2 O 
48 
0 
5 0 
0 
4 
3 
8 
I 
3 
1-1635 
4 
n 
4 
9§ 
6 0 
6 0 
48 
0 
5 0 
0 
2 
IO 
O 
0 
13 
Hi 
0-6984 
2 
9§ 
8 
O 
4 © 
8 0 
48 
0 
5 0 
°> 
I 
13 
8 
O 
9 
3! 
0-4656 
1 
iof 
12 
O 
6 0 
6 0 
72 
0 
3 6 
16 
I 
13 
8 
O 
9 
3 i 
0-4656 
2 
9i 
12 
O 
3 0 
9 ° 
72 
0 
3 6 
16 
O 
l6 
l6 
O 
4 
7 g 
0-2328 
I 
4 t 
24 
O 
11 1 
0 19 
60 
0 
4 0 
0 
3 
13 
l6 
I 
O 
1-0286 
5 
if 
5 
5s- 
112 
018 
60 
0 
4 0 
0 
3 
14 
0 
I 
0 
8 
1-0333 
5 
2 
5 
4s 
11 2 
018 
62 
0 
3 17 
10 
3 
I I 
Hf 
I 
O 
O 
1*0000 
5 
2 
5 
7 
11 2 
018 
66 
0 
3 12 
0 
3 
7 
7 
I 
O 
O 
1*0000 
5 
2 
5 
7 
Of the Comparative Value of Money and Commo¬ 
dities at different Periods. 
The Engli/h money, though the fame names do by no 
means correfpond with the fame quantity of precious 
metal as formerly, has not changed fo much as the money 
of moft other countries. From the time of William the 
Conqueror, the proportion between the pound, the Hul¬ 
ling, and the penny, feems to have been uniformly the 
fame as at prelent. Hence we may calculate the rate of 
their depreciation ; for we fhall find that there has been, 
in general, a progreffive reduftion in their value, and that 
few inftances have’ occurred of any advancement. The 
depreciation of money, in England, from the conqueft to 
the beginning of the reign of Elizabeth, was occafioned 
partly by the debafement of the coin, and partly by the 
gradual increafe of gold and filver from the mines of Eu¬ 
rope ; for the increafe of the precious metals, like that 
of all other articles, tends only to diminilh their value. 
From this period to the revolution a confiderable reduc¬ 
tion in the value of coins was occafioned by the influx 
of gold and filver from the mines of America; and from 
the revolution to the prefent time, the depreciation may 
be alcribed both to the increafe of the precious metais, 
and to the extenfive ufe of paper as a circulating me¬ 
dium. 
In the year 712 and 727, an ewe and lamb were rated 
at is. Saxon money till a fortnight after Eafter. Be¬ 
tween the years 900 and ioco, two hides of land, each 
containing about 120 acres, were fold for 100 Ihillings. 
In 1000, by king Ethelred’s laws, a horfe was rated at 
30s. a mare or a colt of a year old at 20s. a mule or 
young afs at 12s. an ox at 30s. a cow at 24s. a fwine at 
3 8d, 
