An Exposition of Irish Exchange And of Other Important Subjects Being Part of
An Exposition of Irish Exchange And of Other Important Subjects Being Part of
Daniel Beaumont Payne
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56. lOo pressed in the denominations of the measure with which it is compared ; or to which it is referred. The table says, that five shillings equal one ounce of silver. But, I have already mentioned that, the table expresses the par of the mint-money of full weight: and my supposition* was that the ounce of pure silver had been coined into five shillings, of four penny-weights each : -which in quantity were equal to the ounce: and therefore the denominations of the pieces were, in that instan...ce, absolutely necessary to convey to a foreigners cor- rect idea of the value, either of ihe ounce of silver, or of the five shillings. The table is, in fact, a coltetlion o/"dkfinitions. And a de- finition, your Lordship knows, should be " recipro- cal with the thing de fined t. " Consequently, when an ounce of silver could no longer be used in any sentence in the place of five shillings; or, five shillings in the place of 'an ounce of silver ; a new table was become necessary. Merchants, there- fore, viade new tcbksfor themselves.
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