Lexicographical Neighbors of Mancuses
Literary usage of Mancuses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Crawford Collection of Early Charters and Documents Now in the Bodleian by Arthur Sampson Napier, William Henry Stevenson (1895)
"And in each episcopal estate freedom to every man that is a penal slave, or whom
he bought with his money. And to Wilton a chalice and paten of 120 mancuses ..."
2. The History and Antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon Church: Containing an Account by John Lingard (1845)
"34); eighty mancuses of the purest gold, and six pounds of chosen silver (Ibid.
410). Other payments were made in gold alone, and it would appear from the ..."
3. The Saxons in England: A History of the English Commonwealth Till the Period by John Mitchell Kemble (1876)
"... four shields, two rings each worth one hundred and twenty mancuses, two rings
each worth eighty man- cuses (in all four hundred ..."
4. Archaeologia Cantiana by Kent Archaeological Society (1874)
"In another will, four torques, of two hundred mancuses of gold, are mentioned.
The weight and value of these ornaments shew that they were both torques and ..."
5. Diplomatarium Anglicum Aevi Saxonici: A Collection of English Charters, from by BENJAMIN. THORPE (1865)
"First to his royal lord one torque of eighty mancuses of gold, ... And to the
lady, one torque of thirty mancuses of gold, and one steed 1, ..."
6. Archaeologia Cantiana by Kent Archaeological Society (1874)
"In another will, four torques, of two hundred mancuses of gold, are mentioned.
The weight and value of these ornaments shew that they were both torques and ..."
7. Memorials of King Alfred: Being Essays on the History and Antiquities of by Alfred, John Yonge Akerman, Daniel Henry Haigh, Martin Farquhar Tupper, Thomas Forester, B. C. Hook (1863)
"He commanded also a large sum of money.namely 300 mancuses of pennies yearly to
be carried to Rome for the good of his soul, to be distributed in the ..."
8. Origines Anglicanae: Or A History of the English Church : from the by John Inett (1855)
"Thorpe, five mancuses are said to be equal to thirty shillings of five pence
each (the ... 76, § 6, five mancuses (for that must be the meaning of "V Marc. ..."
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