Re: [Mid] Let's play a game...

On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Robin D. Kullick wrote:

}My persona is an Elizabethan noblewoman, roughly 1570's somewhere.
}
}>>What kinds of money do you use? What are the relative values of the
}different kinds? How much does dinner at the inn cost? How much does a
}horse cost? How much does a skilled worker make per month?<<
}
}Money? There's the Sovereign, Angel, Crown, Half-Crown, Groat, Pence,
}Shilling,, penny, Half-Penny, farthing...etc.
}
}Relativity of monetary terms:
}Farthing...........................$.25
}Ha'penny..........................$1
}Crown..........................$125
}Penny...............................$2
}Angel............................$250
}Groat................................$10
}Sovereign......................$500
}Shilling..............................$25
}
}Dinner at the inn? I do not eat at inns. Firstly, I am a woman. It would
}be unseemly. And secondly, that is why I have a kitchen staff.

What do you pay them?

}Skilled labourer as ie. a carpenter? He would make roughly L10-12 per
}annum-ish.

If I understand the equivalency chart you posted, that means that a
carpenter is making the equivalent of $6,000 a year. How does he live on
that?

Fairfax

From: Alan Terlep <atterlep@oakland.edu>
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Received on Sat Dec 11 11:59:12 1999