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| + | This page provides a dictionary of currency and specie taken from mid-C17th High Court of Admiralty documents. | ||
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| + | MarineLives project members are encouraged to add to the terms listed and to add short illustrative snippets from sample transcriptions available at [[MRP: Admiralty court cases|Admiralty Court Cases]] | ||
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Revision as of 12:57, August 10, 2012
Currency and Specie
Editorial history
08/08/12: WT, created page
08/08/12: WT, copied content across from bron.wikispot.org from page XXX
Purpose of this page
This page provides a dictionary of currency and specie taken from mid-C17th High Court of Admiralty documents.
MarineLives project members are encouraged to add to the terms listed and to add short illustrative snippets from sample transcriptions available at Admiralty Court Cases
Suggested links
See Abbreviations
See Alphabet of ships
See Commodities
See Common Latin Phrases
See Geographical and Place Terms
See Legal Terms
See Marine Terms
See Weights and Measures
Index
B
Barres
E
Peeces of eight ("she had aboard her in silver two XXX, one XXXX, two XXXXXXX, seaven or eight XXXXXX, and a tobacco box and seaven or eight peeces of eight; w:ch the said John Lopez had ashore at Milford. And otherwise hee cannot depose" (HCA 13/73))
G
Gilders ("agreed to allow and pay unto him the summe of two and twenty hundred gilders, holands money, amount'ing to two hundred and twenty pounds sterling or thereabouts" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
M
Lawfull English money
S
Sterling
