advantage under colour of Contingency of the work, which appears

to have bin first apprehended by King Henry the VII who in the

first year of his reign made the Masters of the Mint accountable

to himself for so much of the remedie as was found deficient from

the standard. The first clear record that I can find for the

values of our Moneys, is in the eighteenth year of Edward III and

then a full pound of fine silver was valued at 11 l. of fine

Silver, and eight pence over: From that time to the 25th of