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Appendix K.—Values of certain Moneys, Weights, and Measures, occurring in this Book.
French Money.
The Livre Tournois of the period may be taken, on the mean of five valuations cited in a footnote at p. 87 of vol. i., as equal in modern silver value to ... 18·04 francs.
Say English money ... 14s. 3·8d.
The Livre Parisis was worth one-fourth more than the Tournois,[1] and therefore equivalent in silver value to ... 22·55 francs.
Say English money ... 17s. 10·8d.
(Gold being then to silver in relative value about 12:1 instead of about 15:1 as now, one-fourth has to be added to the values based on silver in equations with the gold coin of the period, and one-fifth to be deducted in values based on gold value. By oversight, in vol. i. p. 87, I took 16:1 as the present gold value, and so exaggerated the value of the livre Tournois as compared with gold.)