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For the bishop’s tableOne man servantOne boy, dittoChaplain to say mass

being equal to three shillings in the presentday.

In the year 1470, Edward the Fourth heldKing Henry the Sixth as' a prisoner in theTower. He was attended by ten persons, andthe allowance for the subsistence of the wholewas at the rate of 31. 10s. per week.—Fcedera,vol. ii. p. 712.

According to the Formulare Anglicanum ofMadox (p. 110), the Lady Anne, daughter ofKing Edward the Third, who was married toLord Howard, son of the Earl of Surry, wasallowed, in 1496, 1/. 11s. weekly, “for her exhi-bition, sustenation, and convenient diet of meatand drink; also for one gentlewoman, one wo-man, one girl, one gentleman, one yeoman, andthree grooms, in all eight persons, 80/. 12s. peryear •, which included their clothing and wages ;besides 25/. 10s. 4 d. for the maintenance ofseven horses.”

It is thus seen, that as late as the end of thefifteenth century, about the time of the discoveryof the mines of America, but before any consi-derable part of their products had circulated in

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