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‘Sometimes in one place and sometimes in another’: Agnes Cooper in Southwark, 1619
- jakeogh 11y ago"He took Agnes on as an apprentice after her step-father’s death, and looked after the £6 30s 4d she inherited from him, a precise sum which must have originally been left her by her own parents." What's £6 then buy today? Reads like £6 30s 4d is the exact fractional amount?
- blintzing 11y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C2%A3sd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C2%A3sd The Latin librae, solidi, and denarii became pounds, shillings and pence. There are 12 pence in a shilling, and 20 shillings in a pound. So, "£6 30s 4d" is (6)+(30/20)+(4/240)= £ 7.51 It's rather odd that such an exact amount was given, which is what the sentence points out.
- jakeogh 11y agoFound a calculator! http://www.measuringworth.com/ukcompare/ http://www.measuringworth.com/ukcompare/ In 2014, the relative worth of £7 10s 4d (that's what it converted to) from 1619 is: £1,320.00 using the retail price index £1,300.00 using the GDP deflator £52,300.00 using the per capita GDP £400,000.00 using the share of GDP