. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . Ireland. Afterwards, asa result of the Ieace of Bretigny, the style of King dfFrance was dropped, and Lord of Aipiitaine inserted in itsplace in the noble. After that date the claims to Franceand A(]nitaine apjicar (in the pieces of larger denomina-tion, the claim to France only, on the smaller. In hissilver coins Edward made little change, but groats and Maille nobler* flroni midniUr, maille, a coin) were
. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . Ireland. Afterwards, asa result of the Ieace of Bretigny, the style of King dfFrance was dropped, and Lord of Aipiitaine inserted in itsplace in the noble. After that date the claims to Franceand A(]nitaine apjicar (in the pieces of larger denomina-tion, the claim to France only, on the smaller. In hissilver coins Edward made little change, but groats and Maille nobler* flroni midniUr, maille, a coin) were lialf nobles ; ferling(.?. fourthling) were quarter uobles. & THE rXIVEllSiriES. 85 I348I hiilf-groats were circulated as well us pennies, half-pence, andIarthings. But the popular feeling was all in favour of the gold Attemptcoinage, and the Comiuons presented an article to the king Monetaryasking him to issue a gold piece smaller than the quarter- Their request received the roj-al assent; nothing,however, seems to have come of it. In like manner theroyal attempt to establish an international circulation,founded on gold, between England, the country of the staple,. COIXS OF EDWARD Quarter-florin. b Penny. c Half-penny. J Half-florin. and Flanders, the country of the manufacture of woollens,proved abortive. It is, however, a curious piece of evidenceof the antiquity of the idea of a monetary union. DuRiXG the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries the wholeintellectual life of the Endish nation is derived from, andcentres in, the two Universities, which served as places ofliigher education or studia generalia. to the regular andsecular clergy, and thus to nearly all professional men. TheUniversity of Oxford—whose claims to have been founded b}King Alfred, St. Xeot, and St. GrimliaM were based on legal ,S(V a>iti\ Vol. I., p. .*•</. H. E. Universities. 86 THE CnxSOLTDATWX OF THE KINGDOM. 11274 and literary forgeries, and are now Icno
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