[445] “Fyne corne powder for small shot.” “Acts of Privy Council,” 8 Ap., 1588; xvi. 25.
[446] Rogers, i. 454.
[447] Rev. J. Hunter in Archæologia, xxxii. 382, who quotes the payments made by Wm. de Stanes in the Wardrobe Accounts of Edward III.
[448] Rogers, ii. 754.
[449] Ib., iii. 205.
[450] Ib., iv., Pièces Justificatives, No. 6, p. xliv.
[451] Hallam’s “Middle Ages,” i. 211. On the accession of Louis XI. (1461) “the livre was only about 1/15 of its original value ... and in 1789 the livre had come to be only 1/78 of its weight in the time of Charlemagne. “Money,” by Prof. Bastable, in Ency. Brit., 9th ed., xvi. 727.
[452] “Treatise on the Coins of the Realm,” by (the first) Lord Liverpool, reprinted London, 1880, p. 40.
[453] In 1580 saltpetre was selling in the north-west of India at a half-penny a pound. “Manufacture of Gunpowder,” Col. W. Anderson, 1862, p. 16.
[454] Caxton’s “Myrrour and Description of the Worlde,” 1480, Part II., c. 21.