The Numismatic Journal, Volume 2E. Wilson, 1837 - Numismatics |
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Page 248 - Latin thesaurus inventus, which is where any money or coin, gold, silver, plate, or bullion, is found hidden in the earth, or other private place, the owner thereof being unknown...
Page 248 - This difference clearly arises from the different intentions which the law implies in the owner. A man, that hides his treasure in a secret place, evidently does not mean to relinquish his property ; but reserves a right of claiming it again, when he sees occasion ; and, if he dies and the secret also dies with him, the law gives it to the King, in part of his royal revenue.
Page 71 - Irlandes d'argent, to pass for the value of one penny sterling ; the other of vij. ob of troy weight, having imprinted on one part of it a crown, and on the other part a cross, called a Patrick, of which eight shall pass for one denier. That a gross be made of the weight of three deniers sterling, and to pass for four deniers sterling, which shall have imprinted on it on one side a crown, and on the other side a...
Page iii - ... haec studia adolescentiam alunt, senectutem oblectant, secundas res ornant, adversis perfugium ac solatium praebent, 'delectant domi, non impediunt foris, pernoctant nobiscum, peregrinantur, rusticantur.
Page 60 - Pali, or sacred language of the priests of Boodh, is nearly allied to the Shanscrit of the Brahmins. The character in common use throughout Ava and Pegu is a round Nagari derived from the square Pali or religious text; it is formed of circles and segments of circles variously disposed and combined, whilst the Pali, which is solely applied to purposes of religion, is a square letter, chiefly consisting of right angles."— Rees's Cyclopadia, art.
Page 212 - B the standard of St. Mark spread before him, urging his people to push on to the shore on peril of his high displeasure. By wondrous exertions they ran the galley ashore, and leaping out, bore the banner of St. Mark before him on the land. When the Venetians saw the banner of St. Mark on the land, and that their duke's galley had been the first to touch the ground, they pushed on in shame and emulation, and the men of the palanders sprang to land in rivalry of each other, and commenced a furious...
Page 250 - UNDER-SHERIFF summed up the evidence; and the Jury immediately returned a verdict of \8l.
Page 110 - Queene [Elizabeth] more easily to subdue the rebels, did take silver coyne from the Irish, some few years before her death, and paid her army with a mixed base coyne, which, by proclamation, was commanded to be spent and received, for sterling silver money. This base mixed money had three parts of copper, and the fourth part of silver, which proportion of silver was in some part consumed by the mixture, so as the English goldsmiths valued a shilling thereof at no more than two silver pence, though...
Page 71 - Ireland, though it be under the obedience of the same realm is nevertheless separate from it, and from all the laws and statutes of it, only such as are there by the lords spiritual and temporal and Commons freely admitted and accepted of in parliament or great council, by which a proper coin separate from the coin of England was with more convenience agreed to be had in Ireland...
Page 112 - ... of the process consists of the following method: — The model being made in any substance, wax, clay, wood, or other fit material, a mould of it is taken in plaster, from which mould, when dried and oiled to harden it, an impression is taken in sand, or other similar substance which may be preferred, and from this again a cast is obtained in iron as thin as possible, that the work may come up sharply, and the iron attain the hardness almost of a steel die hardened.