The current issue (No. 1232) of Private Eye carries the full text of the punishment meted out to the ‘mint-men’ in 1125 as reported in The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. It goes like this: AD 1125. In this year sent the King Henry, before Christmas, from Normandy to England, and bade that all the mint-men that were [...]
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