[Sca-cooks] Expenses for Food and Lodging of the Embassy from Aragon, 1415

[Philip & Susan Troy]

tgl at mailer.uni-marburg.de wrote:
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> http://icg.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/lifemann/manners/aragon.html
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Does anybody have an opinion on whether this is a typo? Or is my
understanding of the basics of British currency of the period completely off?

> 4
> mullets at 11 pence, 3 shillings 8 pence;

The only thing I can think of is that each mullet is 11-pence, for a
total of 44 pence, which, assuming a twelve-penny shilling, would work
out, I guess. It's just rather awkwardly recorded, compared to the other notations.

Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy

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