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spur-royal Now Hist. or arch.
Forms: 7 spur(re) roial, 7– spur royal; 6–7 spur-roiall, 7– spur-royal (7 -all, spurroyal).
[f. spur n.1 + royal n. Cf. spur-rial.]
A gold coin of the value of fifteen shillings, chiefly coined in the reign of James I; so called from having on its reverse the form of the sun with rays, resembling a spur-rowel.
1600Holland Livy 1424 Aurei Romani, Peeces of gold coine..in round reckoning equivalent to our spur-roiall of 15 sh. 1639Mayne City Match ii. iii, Spur-royals, Harry⁓groats, or such odd coin Of husbandry, as in the King's reign now Would never pass. 1657W. Rand tr. Gassendi's Life Peiresc I. 132 The Solidus aureus..came at last..to the Value of our usuall Shilling or Spur-roiall. 1704Lond. Gaz. No. 4072/6 A red Sattin Purse, in which was a 5 Guinea Piece with a Spur Royal. 1711Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) III. 134 A small Gold Spur-royal shew'd me..of Hen. VI. 1834A. E. Bray Warleigh xl. (1884) 298 A hundred spur royals must be your ransom: for I know your wealth. 1853Humphreys Coin Coll. Man. II. 465 The old noble..which was now termed a spur royal, from the resemblance of the rays to the rowels of a spur.
fig.a1618Sylvester Little Bartas 616 Wks. (Grosart) II. 90 Then was the Heav'n's Azure Pavilion spred, And with Spur-Royals spangled over-head. |