In message <90OpLGAozu5AFw2t@varneys.demon.co.uk>, Eve McLaughlin <eve@varneys.demon.co.uk> writes >In message <002401c460b9$5ab600f0$abe58690@ELIZABETH>, Ron and Liz >Waring <edwaring@bigpond.com> writes >>Hi All, >> can anyone tell me if there is a site where I can find the symbols used in 16 >>and 17th century England, especially in the inventory in wills. >They tended to use li (=librae) after the figure for pounds and s and d >for shillings and pence ( solidii and denarii) >You also get ob. after the pennies, meaning obolus, a halfpenny oh, and superscript xx for a score. So iijxxli is 3 X 20 = sixty pounds > > In the C16, marks were used in speech, but generally written as 13s 4d >ot xiiis iiijd (or ivd) -- Eve McLaughlin Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society