[At the time the above paragraph was going the round of the
papers, a friend consulted the parish clerk of St. Leonard,
Shoreditch, respecting its authenticity, and was informed that
some mischievous individual had altered the figure 1 into 2. It is
correctly given by Sir Henry Ellis in his _History of Shoreditch_,
p. 77., as follows:--"Thomas Cam, aged 107, 28 January, 1588."]
_Solidus Gallicus, &c._--Will any of your correspondents kindly construe
for me the following sentences?
"Valebat siclus sanctuarii tetradrachma Atticum: quod Budaeus
estimat 14 solidis Gallicis, aut circiter: nam didrachma septim
facit solidos, sicuti drachma simplex duos, et sesquialterum,
minus denario turonico."
What was the value of "solidus Gallicus," or French sol, or sous; for
this I presume to be its meaning in 1573, the date of the passage? And
what was the value of the "denier Tournois," if that be the meaning of
"denarium Turonicum?"
References are useless, for I have no access to libraries.