Part II, Chapter I.: A summary account of all the alterations that have been made in our standard of money, from the Nor

THAT the reader may comprehend at one view, the several alterations that have been made in our money standard, ever since the Norman conquest; I have inserted the following table, computed to my hand by the late learned Martin Folkes, Esq.; and printed in his curious Table of English silver coins, &c. p. 142; to which I have added the proportion which, in our coins, fine gold bore to fine silver, at the respective times therein specified, fine silver being reckoned unity or 1.

1. A Table shewing at one view, the several alterations that have been made in the standard and weight of our silver money, from the Norman conquest to this time (1758).