Note 414 — III The Sixteenth Century [1502-80] (continued 2)
Reading edition
It is about the sum (apart from any grant of pimenta) which a common soldier on active service might earn in India (see Barros, I. viii. 3: 1,200 × 12 = 14,400); environ huit cents livres de notre monnoie d’aujourd’hui (Voltaire). It would scarcely correspond to more than £50 of to-day.