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Unlocking An Early Modern Account Book
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Unlocking An Early Modern Account Book

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Paul Dingman

The answer to last week’s Crocodile mystery is, as some of you guessed, £135 15s 0d (or 135 pounds, 15 shillings). This amount is a snippet of one entry made on a page in Folger MS V.b.308, the account book of…