| 单词 | melting book |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmelting book melting book n. now historical an account book used to record quantities of metal melted. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > coining > [noun] > metal used for coining > record of melting book1622 1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 283 As for your Melting booke where the allay is entred, if you will charge the Mint-master thereby, let it be done distinctly for siluer, and copper, or [etc.]. 1757 S. Paterson Catal. Coll. MSS Sir Julius Cæsar, Knt. 9 The master worker of the monies must answer to the warden..according to his bills or receipt delivered to the warden, and not according to the melting book, 1606. 1868 G. W. Porter tr. Regul. Royal Mint Stockholm in First Rep. Commissioners into Conditions Exchequer Standards App. 272/2 The Master of the Mint shall, in a book called the melting book,..enter an account of each melting. 1992 C. E. Challis New Hist. Royal Mint iii. 323 These details concerning the recoining of the French dowry are taken from what appears to be the only surviving melting book for this period. < as lemmas |
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