Itinerarium totius Sacræ Scripturæ. Or, the trauels of the holy patriarchs, prophets, iudges, kings, our sauiour Christ, and his Apostles, as they are related in the Old and New Testaments. With a description of the townes and places to which they trauelled, and how many English miles they stood from Ierusalem. Also a short treatise of the weights, monies, and measures mentioned in the Scriptures, reduced to our English valuations, quantitie, and weight. Collected out of the workes of Henry Bunting, and done into English by R.B.

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Title: Itinerarium totius Sacræ Scripturæ. Or, the trauels of the holy patriarchs, prophets, iudges, kings, our sauiour Christ, and his Apostles, as they are related in the Old and New Testaments. With a description of the townes and places to which they trauelled, and how many English miles they stood from Ierusalem. Also a short treatise of the weights, monies, and measures mentioned in the Scriptures, reduced to our English valuations, quantitie, and weight. Collected out of the workes of Henry Bunting, and done into English by R.B.
Author: Bünting, Heinrich, 1545-1606.
Publication: London :: Printed by Adam Islip,; 1636.
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Subject terms: Bible -- Geography -- To 1800.
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Of the gold after the seat of the Empire was translated to Byzantium or Constantinople.

COnstantine the Great diminished that Coine which was a Drachma, to a Didrachma, and the seuenth part of a Drachma; and was worth of our money 8 s. 6 d. ob.

And thus they continued till the time of Valentinian the Em∣perour, who caused six of them to be coined out of an ounce of gold, and therefore as Isidor saith, were called amongst the Grae∣cians 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, that is, Sextuala, because it was the sixt part of an ounce, and was worth 10 s.

The Semissis of Valentinian gold was worth 5 s.

The Triens or Tremissis, was worth 3 s. 4 d.

The Scruple, which was the fourth part of a golden shilling, 2 s. 6 d.