Michaelis de anno 36 --xx^li. To the valewe whereof agreeth Hipodigma Neustriæ, pa. 127, [Sidenote: King John of France, his ransom of three millions of florens.] where setting downe the ransome of the frenche kinge taken at Poyters to the valewe of thre milliones of florens, he sayethe “of w{hic}he florens duo valebant vj^s. viij^d.” These florens the same Walsingha{m} in another place callethe scutes or frenche crownes, pa. 170, sayinge: Rex quidem Franciæ pro sua redemptione soluit regi Angliæ tres milliones scutoru{m}, quoru{m} duo valent vnu{m} nobile, videlicet, sex solidos et octo denarios. Whiche scutes in lyke manner, in the tyme of kinge Henry the sixte were of the same valewe, as apperethe in Fortescues commentaries of the lawes of Englande. But as those florens for the redempt{i}one of the frenche kinge, were of the valewe of half one noble: so at the tyme of that kings reigne there were also one other sorte of florens, not of lyke valewe, but conteyned within the price of ij^s. x^d. [QR]. called florene regales, as apperethe in this record, of Easter terme, of Pellis exitus before sayed, where yt is thus entred one the sixte of Julye: Guiscardo de Angles. Domino de pleyne martyne, In denariis sibi liberatis per manus Walteri Hewett militis in pretio 4000 florenoru{m} regaliu{m} pretii petii --ij^s. x^d. [QR] de quibus florenis regal{ibus} 7 computantur pro tribus nobilibus, eidem Guiscardo debitis. Whereby yo{u} see the meanest of these florens did exceed the valewe of ij^s. frenche, (although you sholde equall that with ii^s. Englishe,) as yt did also in other countryes. for in the lowe countryes at those dayes yt was much aboute the valewe of iij^s. iiij^d. beinge halfe a pistolet Italiane or Spanyshe. for so sayethe Heuterius Delphicus, (in the Historye of Burgundye, in the lyfe of Philippe le hardye,) lyving at that tyme, and sonne to the frenche kinge taken prisoner by the Inglishe. Heuterius’ woordes be these. Illustris viri aliorumq{ue} nobiliu{m} mors adeò comite{m} com{m}ovit, vt relicta obsidione exercitus ad co{m}meatus ducendos in proxima loca distribuerit. Decem millibus florenorum (moneta Belgica est semipistoletu{m} Italicu{m} pendens) pro Anglicani, aliorumq{ue} nobiliu{m} cadaverum redemptione solutis, &c.