Note 49 — PART II HISTORICAL STUDIES
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This is, of course, the same entry, only that here our author changed pounds into houses, and libras into liberæ. What idea was conveyed to his mind by a house 'libera ad numerum' I do not profess to explain. But, oddly enough, as he here turned pounds into houses, so in a passage of his William Rufus he turned houses into pence.49