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through their woods & thereby render'd | through their woods & thereby render'd | ||
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through their woods & thereby render'd that Country more accessible.
The coin of the Kingdom having been much debased during the reign of Stephen, Henry order'd a recoinage. It is to be observed that the sial money consisted of thin peaces of Silver of about the weight, size, & intrinsic value of a Queen Elizabeths three-pence which was their penny & from which we still retain the name of underline penny /underline underline weight /underline that is deletion one /deletion the twenti^ addition e /addition th part of an ounce. In succeeding reigns larger peaces of four times the weight were minted & from such increase of there size were were called grauts & weighed as much as our shilling. The silver pennys after the conquest were much the same with
