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* The distinction between grand and petty larceny is very ancient. At first 8d. was the sum which constituted grand larceny. LI. Ælhelst. c. 1. 'Ne parcatur ulli furi, qui furtum manutenens captus sit, supra 12 annos nafo, et supra 8 denarios. Afterwards, in the same king's reign, it was raised to 12d.
She is paying her four deniers* quatuor denarios." * An old French coin, equal to the two hundred and fortieth part of a pound. "Aut unum bombum." "Would you like to have her pay you in the face?" "Comrades! Master Simon Sanguin, the Elector of Picardy, with his wife on the crupper!" "Post equitem seclet atra eura behind the horseman sits black care." "Courage, Master Simon!"
That four shillings, however, was not considered as the highest price to which barley might frequently rise in those times, and that these prices were only given as an example of the proportion which ought to be observed in all other prices, whether higher or lower, we may infer from the last words of the statute: "Et sic deinceps crescetur vel diminuetur per sex denarios."
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