Note 24 — XI. HOW THE NORMANS CAME TO YORKSHIRE.
Reading edition
The value of money was in 1086 approximately twenty times its value at the present day. The Domesday ‘pound’ meant, not a coin, but a pound weight of silver.
Reading edition
The value of money was in 1086 approximately twenty times its value at the present day. The Domesday ‘pound’ meant, not a coin, but a pound weight of silver.