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From: "Ray Hennessy" <>
Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] HELEN WILL
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 23:58:22 +0000
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On 05/03/2008, Gavin Bell wrote:

> ... But his parents are mentioned in the Kirk Session
> Accounts of Rhyine for 1834 as having jointly paid a
> "Penalty" of £1 (a large sum of money at the time).
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Gavin

Not quite as large as it might have been as Scots pounds
were worth a fraction of an English pound - I've read that it
was a quarter in one source and a twelfth elsewhere.
Can you let us know what the exchange rate was?

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Best wishes

Ray

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