Note 51 — BOOK V. OF TAXES, AND OF THE PROPER APPLICATION OF THEIR AMOUNT. (continued 2)

The minot is a measure of capacity equal to three Paris bushels, or the fourth part of a septier; which is about one half of an English quarter. This makes the minot to be about an English bushel. The Marechal proposed that this quantity, when at the lowest price, should be sold for 18 livres, or 1l. 6s. 1½d. sterling; and when at the highest, at 30 livres, 2l. 3s. 6½d. from which we may judge of the exorbitancy of the gabelle, even after all the diminution he thought proper to make upon it. The French money mentioned in the Marechal’s Dixieme royale, is here converted into 52¼d. sterling, for the French crown of three livres: because the silver coin in France, at the time he wrote, was 30 livres 10 sols the marc (Dutot, chap. 1. art. 6.); and at present it is at 49 livres 16 sols.