In Eric Fawcett's most appropriate example of the summoning of the manor court of Egremont, we get: >the people who were summoned to the Court Leet and did not >attend were both fined 3 shillings and 4 pence and were >detailed in the Court minutes !! I've previously mentioned 6s 8d; and it's just struck me that some of you may not know why such peculiar sums come up. Multiply 3s 4d by 6, or 6s 8d by 3, and you get 20s or £1. Such sums were, in other words, convenient sub-divisions, not precise valuations of something. In fact, when used officially or in accounts in early records, they are sub-divisions of the 'MARK' (a unit of account) that was valued at 13s 4d (two-thirds of £1). Chris chris@dickinson.uk.net