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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    _Cfcoitfcan |0?ect'ofttm> Whether he who has FI Founds per An. may fafely [wear he has not F ? When a Pound is, in both Places (and has been fo for more than 600 Years) XX s. but as you have qualified it, by dlftinguifbing the Times, it will require both a good Cafuift, and a pretty good Hiftonan, to anfwer it abfolutely, and to your Pur- pofe; which is (as I take it) to know, of what Value you may now hold an Eflate, with fafety to your Confcience, which is charged with the Obfervation of that. Statute, which vacates the Fellow- flitp of One who has an Eflate of Inheri¬ tance, or a perpetual Penfion of C s. or V /, per An. A better Cafutftj I own, you might eafdy have found. But, it may be, you could not io easily have found One, who hath in his Readings, made more Obfervations on the Price of Corn, and other Commodities, at different Times, than I have done, as you will perceive by reading this long Letter. So that, for ought I know, my Diligence may make you Amends for what want of Judgment may be found \n me. And I do not fay this in Vanity and Oftenfta- tion of my Labour, but becaufe without a good fhare of Knowledge in thefe Mat¬ ters, the bed Cafuift in^the World can B 4 never