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The pound often mentioned in Doomsday book, was The weight of a pound in silver, consisting of twelve ounces, equal in weight to £3.2s. of our present money; the same pound weight in gold was worth forty eight pound.

In the Saxon times the pound consisted of forty eight shillings, each shilling of five pence, and their penny was equal to our three pence; the shilling therefore made fifteen of our pence, deletion & /deletion addition and /addition consequently sixty of our shillings went to their pound.

The Shilling mentioned in Doomsday consisted of twelve pence, of which there were twenty to the pound, and is equal in weight to three shillings of our Money; Shillings were of very different Value according as the Government thought fit to alter them; no such piece of money was ever coined till the year 1504. in the end of the Reign of Henry VIII.

Silver Pence were antiently the only Silver Current Coin in England, it remained the greatest piece of silver Coin till 1383. When deletion Edw III /deletion addition Edward III /addition coined groats, so called from Gros signifying great.

Crowns deletion & /deletion addition and addition half Crowns were first coined in 1551. in the Reign of Edward VI.

Silver halfpence deletion & /deletion addition and /addition Silver farthings were introduced deletion in /deletion about the Reign of King John.