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S- The Thrimta.
6.
The Penny.
7- The Halfpenny.
8.
The Farthing.
9- The Styca.
Now in order to understand the value of all these coins or standards clearly, our first business is to know what the "pound" and " ora" were. The pound, called by the Saxons Tower pound, being weighed and answered for at their Tower (central to the whole state) of London, weighed 5,400 troy grains; and the ora, or Tower ounce, 450 troy grains. There were, therefore, twelve Tower ounces, or oras, in the Tower pound of... pure silver.
This most notable of all European measures, the pound, was, without doubt, brought from Germany by the Saxons ; but it is originally Roman, and the Roman word for it, libra.
APPENDIX TO "CANDIDA CASA. I3I was accepted from them by the Greeks of Sicily in tlieir XtTpa, litra, now the French "litre." But how the weight of the pound was first determined by the Romans, or out of what convenience of measure it developed itself, I can find, in my whole library, no book that tells me.' The first positive determination of the legal pound for the Romans was by the Emperor Vespasian in the year of Christ 75, a measure called a congius being then placed in the Capitol, which held exactly ten Roman pounds" weight of water (Hussey, "Ancient Weights and Measures," p.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
S- The Thrimta.
6.
The Penny.
7- The Halfpenny.
8.
The Farthing.
9- The Styca.
Now in order to understand the value of all these coins or standards clearly, our first business is to know what the "pound" and " ora" were. The pound, called by the Saxons Tower pound, being weighed and answered for at their Tower (central to the whole state) of London, weighed 5,400 troy grains; and the ora, or Tower ounce, 450 troy grains. There were, therefore, twelve Tower ounces, or oras, in the Tower pound of... pure silver.
This most notable of all European measures, the pound, was, without doubt, brought from Germany by the Saxons ; but it is originally Roman, and the Roman word for it, libra.
APPENDIX TO "CANDIDA CASA. I3I was accepted from them by the Greeks of Sicily in tlieir XtTpa, litra, now the French "litre." But how the weight of the pound was first determined by the Romans, or out of what convenience of measure it developed itself, I can find, in my whole library, no book that tells me.' The first positive determination of the legal pound for the Romans was by the Emperor Vespasian in the year of Christ 75, a measure called a congius being then placed in the Capitol, which held exactly ten Roman pounds" weight of water (Hussey, "Ancient Weights and Measures," p.
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