Chronicon preciosum: or, an account of English gold and silver money; the price of corn and other commodities; and of Stipends, Salaries, Wages, Jointures, Portions, Day-Labour, &c. in England, for six hundred years last past: shewing From the Decrease of the Value of Money, and from the Increase of the Value of Corn and other Commodities, &c. that A Fellow, who has an Estate in Land of Inheritance, or a perpetual Pension of Five Pounds per Annum, may conscientiously keep his Fellowship, and ought not to be compelled to leave the same, tho' the Statutes of his College (founded between the Years 1440 and 1460) did then vacate his Fellowship on such Condition. By Bishop Fleetwood. To which is added, an historical account of coins, illustrated with several plates of Gold and Silver Coins.

People / Organizations

• William Fleetwood (Author)

Imprint

London: printed for T. Osborne, in Gray's-Inn, M.DCC.XLV. [1745]

Publication year

1745-1745

ESTC No.

T145226

Grub Street ID

191972

Description

[10],147,[3];30,[2]p.,XII plates ; 8⁰

Note

'An appendix to Chronicon preciosum: .. ' has separate titlepage, pagination, and register.

With a final advertisement leaf.