Note E331 — 53.
Reading edition
"Grote." "In this yere [1349] the kynge caused to be coyned grotes and half grotes, the whiche lacked of the weight of his former coyne, iis. vid. in a li [libra, pound] Troy."—Fabyan, p. 461. The groat was only equal to about three and a half silver pennies instead of four.