(27-07-2017, 03:19 PM)Anton Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.With USD/pound = 1.3 that's basically the same thing.
Yes, but... too much!
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page 32: £ 600 = 300 dollars (Thalers?), as well, many sums for comparison.
"...the deponent did hear himself the said doctor afferme..." introduces at least two points of possible unceratinty and exaggerration - the deponent and the "said doctor"
So I simply would not take that at face value.
According to the text below, not such a big money for Dee and Kelly
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So, 600 pounds is ~1545 ducats.
I didn't copy it down, but I was reading about the treasures in Rudolf II's cabinet and there was information about what he paid for some of them, and 600 ducats is a pittance compared to the cost of some of the more exotic items.
Six hundred ducats was a great deal of money to a farmer or minor artisan but apparently not very burdensome for Rudolf.