Weights for weighing Coins

I am able to supply H.E. with a reference to this subject of an earlier date than those he quotes. In the MS. *Compotus* or *Accounts of Sibton Abbey, in Suffolk*, in my possession, occurs the following item, under the year 1363-4: "Et de ix d. pro ij paribus Balaunces pro aure ponderand'." The following extract, although of later date than H.E. requires, may yet be not without its use to him in illustration of the subject. It occurs in the *Compotus* of a collegiate establishment at Mettingam, Suffolk, from an earlier volume of which some extracts were furnished to the *Archæological Journal*…