Chronicon preciosum: or, an account of English money, the price of corn, and other commodities, for the last six hundred years. [Anon.] / [William Fleetwood].

  • Fleetwood, William, 1656-1723.
Date:
1707
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Chronicon preciosum: or, an account of English money, the price of corn, and other commodities, for the last six hundred years. [Anon.] / [William Fleetwood]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Originals, whatever 1 have fet down; even many Particulars, which I have been content to give you Very often, in honeft Mr. Stow s English, (But, after all the Care 1 could take, J am fenfihle, there mujl needs be ma¬ ny Faults, and many Mi flakes, in a Work fff this Nature * and One 1 have already found, which 1 think my felf obliged to retraB, in this Place, becaufe it is too late to do it in its proper One - and that is, a Cenfure I faffed On Mr, SpeedV giving us fo many Two- Pences, and Three-Pences of Saxon Kings, and fame others, firtce the Con- queft, J was led into it, ( as others have been) by thinking he intended to mark TWo Pences, dnd Three-Pences by the 'Figure fof-2 at3 which,1 am now fenftble, he Mended'for'another Pur- pofe. .Mnd therefore, as ti would be an Error in any One, to think thofe Pieces were coin'd fir early, fo 1 mujl needs