From A History of Richard the Third by Jacob Abbott (1901): "This ceremony being concluded, a company of heralds came forward before the king, and proclaimed '

From A History of Richard the Third by Jacob Abbott (1901): "This ceremony being concluded, a company of heralds came forward before the king, and proclaimed 'a largesse,' as it was called. The ceremony of a largesse consisted in throwing money among the crowd to be scrambled for. Three times the money was thrown out, on this occasion, among the guests in the hall. The amount that is charged on the royal account-book for the expense of this largesse is one hundred pounds."