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	Research Tools : Scots Currency Converter
		In the reign of James III (1460-1488) the pound sterling was worth 4 pounds Scots.
		In 1560, 5 pounds Scots equalled 1 pound sterling.
		When James VI succeeded to the throne of England (in 1603) the exchange rate for Scots pounds to sterling was fixed at 12:1.
	www.scan.org.uk /researchrtools/scots_currency.htm (269 words)

	Pound - LoveToKnow 1911
		The pound troy, probably introduced from France, was in use as early as 1415 and was adopted as the legal standard for gold and silver in 1527.
		The standard pound troy, placed together with the standard yard in the custody of the clerk of the House of Commons by a resolution of the House of the 2nd of June 1758, was destroyed at the burning of the houses of parliament in 1834.
		The Egyptian pound, written £E, is a gold coin of 100 piastres, and was made the monetary unit of the country by a decree of the 14th of November 1885.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Pound (672 words)

	Scotland - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		Scots is widely believed to have developed from the Northumbrian form of Anglo-Saxon, spoken in Bernicia which, in the 6th century, conquered the Brythonic kingdom of Gododdin (modern-day Lothian) and renamed its capital, Dunedin, to Edinburgh.
		The Scots language was also officially recognised as a "regional or minority language" under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages ratified by the United Kingdom in 2001, and the Scottish Executive, has promised to provide support in their Partnership Agreement 2003.
		The Scots are proud of the fact that the Scottish Reformation took place at a grassroots level, unlike the English experience, where the reformation, at least in its first thrust under Henry VIII, was a politically motivated top-down reform.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/s/c/o/Scotland.html (5679 words)

	POUND (2)—(a) - Online Information article about POUND (2)—(a)
		VIII.: the " pounde Troye which exceedeth the pounde Tower in weight iii quarters of the oz.") substituted a pound of 5760 grains, at which the pound troy still remains.
		merchant's pound, weighing 6750 grains, which was established about 1270 for all commodities except gold, silver and medicines, but it was generally superseded by the pound avoirdupois about 1330.
		report in 1841 the pound avoirdupois of 7000 grains was substituted for the pound troy as the standard.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /POL_PRE/POUND_2_a_.html (2052 words)

	Units: P
		The troy and avoirdupois pounds are connected by the grain: there are 5760 grains in a troy pound and 7000 grains in an avoirdupois pound.
		Since one pound of mass is 0.453 592 kilograms and the acceleration of gravity averages 9.806 65 meters per second per second at the surface of the Earth, one pound force equals the product of these two numbers, 4.448 221 615 newtons.
		One pound mole of a chemical compound is the same number of pounds as the molecular weight of a molecule of that compound measured in atomic mass units.
	www.unc.edu /~rowlett/units/dictP.html (9597 words)

	The DiCamillo Companion - British Money Home Page
		1 Pound and 1 Shilling, or 21 Shillings
		2/3 of a Pound, or 13 Shillings and 4 Pence
		The Pound abbreviation symbol of £ derives from the Latin libra, which was a unit of weight in ancient Rome corresponding to a pound.
	www.dicamillocompanion.com /British_Money.html (2759 words)

	Strongblade Sword Lore: History / History of Scottish Weapons
		There weren't a lot of them, but pound for pound, Scots were one of the most ferocious group of warriors in the world.
		The Scots retort that the english are sore losers).
		In the meantime, a squad of Scots forded the Forth at a shallow spot down river and flanked the English.
	www.strongblade.com /history/scottishweapons.html (1009 words)

	Guardian \| Scots pound worth less in US
		An independent Scotland seemed closer yesterday on news that Scottish pound notes were changing hands at different rates to the English ones at a number of overseas bureaux de change.
		The pound is being traded at Thomas Cook bureaux across North America at the different rates, depending on whether the notes are issued by the Bank of England or by one of the three Scottish banks authorised to do so, it was claimed.
		At one point last Friday, its bureaux were offering travellers an exchange rate of 1.5949 US dollars to the English pound, and one of 1.5941 to the Scottish pound.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4121251-103505,00.html (376 words)

	Scotland information - Search.com
		Scots law, the Scottish education system and the Church of Scotland have been three cornerstones contributing to the continuation of Scottish culture and Scottish national identity since the Union.
		The word Scot was borrowed from Latin and its use to refer to Scotland dates from at least the first half of the 10th century, when it first appeared in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as a reference to the Land of the Gaels, analogous to the Latin Scotia.
		In modern times the word Scot is applied equally to all inhabitants regardless of their ancestral ethnicity, since the nation has had a civic, rather than a monoculturally ethnic or linguistic, orientation for most of the last millennium.
	www.search.com /reference/Scotland (6488 words)

	Units: F
		The Scots furlong was equal to 40 falls (226.8 meters) rather than 40 rods, and the Scots mile was equal to 320 falls (5952 English feet, 1.127 English mile or 1814.2 meters).
		The original version seems to have been equivalent to 2160 avoirdupois pounds, and the version still being used in the nineteenth century was equal to 19.5 hundredweight or 2184 pounds.
		In medieval England the fotmal was equal to 70 "mercantile" pounds, which is equivalent to 72 avoirdupois pounds.
	www.unc.edu /~rowlett/units/dictF.html (5050 words)

	Measurement in the Middle Ages
		At other times the pound has varied locally from 12 to 27 ounces, according to the commodity, pounds of different weight being often used in the same place for different articles, as bread, butter, cheese, meat, malt, hay, wool, etc.
		That specific rock, or "Stone" weighed (at that time 14 pounds) (n.b., a sack of wool was equal in weight to 1/6th a cartload of lead) or 364 pounds aveir de peis.
		Generally the distance from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger, or sometimes to the tip of the forefinger, when the hand is fully extended; the space equivalent to this taken as a measure of length, averaging nine inches.
	www.personal.utulsa.edu /~marc-carlson/history/measure.html (1671 words)

	languagehat.com: SCANDINAVIAN INFLUENCE ON SCOTS.
		However, their influence on both Scots Gaelic and Scots English is minimal and seems to be limited mostly to some loan words like uinneag (window) and barn (child) etc. rather than grammatical and syntactical features.
		Voila, the Scots 'pound' is from the Icelandic pund, which is how it is widely pronounced in Scotland today.
		If the early Scots tongue came from some variant of Old English as is claimed by many, how are there no credible traces, especially in place names, of what must have been extensive settlements to have a major impact on the old Scots non-Celtic tongue.
	www.languagehat.com /archives/001706.php (1184 words)

	Pound (currency) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The pound, a unit of currency, originated in Britain as the value of a pound mass of silver.
		Australian pound (until 1966, replaced by the Australian dollar) note: the Australian pound was also used in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Nauru, New Hebrides and Papua and New Guinea.
		The Australian pound was replaced in the New Hebrides in 1977 by the New Hebrides franc.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pound_(currency) (714 words)

	pound scots definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
		pound scots definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
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	Chapter Chapter 4 of The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
		The Scots money pound contained, from the time of Alexander the First to that of Robert Bruce, a pound of silver of the same weight and fineness with the English pound sterling.
		The proportion, however, between the shilling and either the penny on the one hand, or the pound on the other, seems not to have been so constant and uniform as that between the penny and the pound.
		The English pound and penny contain at present about a third only; the Scots pound and penny about a thirty-sixth; and the French pound and penny about a sixty-sixth part of their original value.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/1/65/112/7040/3.html (857 words)

	Scotland Information Center - map of scotland
		It is estimated by the General edinburgh evening news scotland Register Office for Scotland that 30% of the population are also radio scotland fluent in Scots, a West Germanic language sister to the English language.
		By the time of James VI's accession to the English throne, the old Scottish Court and Parliament spoke and bank of scotland wrote in Scots, also known as Lowland Scots or Lallans (although strictly speaking Lallans is a literary dialect of the Scots language).
		The Scots are proud of the fact that the Scottish Reformation took place at bbc scotland a grassroots level, unlike the English experience, where the reformation, at least in its first thrust under Henry VIII, was a politically motivated top-down reform.
	www.scipeeps.com /Sci-Official_Languages_P_-_S/Scotland.html (5654 words)

	Haggis
		Haggis is one of those national dishes that is both beloved and reviled by natives, and sometimes horrifies people who hear it described for the first time.
		It even horrifies native Scots -- my teacher and graduate advisor Ian Conner, a Glaswegian, was appalled that I had actually eaten this stuff whilst in Scotland.
		A piper ushers in the Haggis and all raise a glass of Scotch whiskey and "brrreath a prrayerr for the soul of Rrrobbie Burrrns!" It is then served with "neeps and nips," mashed turnips and nips of whiskey.
	www.gumbopages.com /food/scottish/haggis.html (913 words)

	British One Pound Coins - First Issue 1984
		The nickel-brass pound had only been introduced in 1983, but it was decided to produce four different national reverse designs in a four year cycle, plus a "Royal" design in the fifth year.
		The obverse of the coin shows the Arnold Machin portrait of The Queen which was adopted for decimalisation, and has been used on nearly all UK coinage since 1968.
		The 1983 pound was the first United Kingdom coin to be struck with this distinctive feature.
	www.24carat.co.uk /1984pound.html (299 words)

	Vindicator • Scots looking forward to game
		The Fighting Scots were 5-6 a year ago and have only come close one time to beating Youngstown State in four previous meetings.
		The Scots have 13 returning starters, eight on offense and five on defense, and the expectations are high for this year.
		The Scots, who were ranked fifth in the PSAC preseason poll, have all three of their leading receivers returning.
	www.vindy.com /print/278800384589023.shtml (642 words)

	Research Tools - ScotlandsPeople
		When James VI succeeded to the throne of England (in 1603) the exchange rate for Scots pounds to sterling was fixed at 12:1.
		To convert an amount in Scots pounds to Sterling and to carry out addition in pounds, shillings and pence, please see the Scots Currency Converter on www.scan.org.uk.
		However, in Scots documents in the period 1500-1750 you are likely to come up against some variations.
	www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk /content/help/index.aspx?r=419&423 (535 words)

	Scotland on Sunday - Scotland - Poll shows Scots still pledge allegiance to pound (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Our poll of 575 adults found that 62% of Scots with an opinion on the euro said they would vote against entry if a referendum were held tomorrow.
		It is the first indication of how Scots would react to an early referendum if Tony Blair proceeds with plans backed by some ministers to hold the vote on the same day as next year’s Scottish parliament elections.
		Only 29% of Scots polled said they would vote to replace the pound with the euro if a referendum were held now.
	scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com /scotland.cfm?id=48002002 (701 words)

	measures-art
		Pound A measure of weight and mass derived from the
		fourteenth century a pound of sixteen ounces was
		III, and known as the pound aveir de peis, i.e.
	www.florilegium.org /files/COMMERCE/measures-art.html (1500 words)

	More Info on scotland - - scottland - - scorland
		The country's lengthy struggle with England, its more powerful neighbour to the south, was the cause of the Wars of Scottish Independence, forcing Scotland to rely on trade, cultural and often strategic ties with a number of European powers, most notably France.
		From roughly the end of the 14th century, Scotland began to show a split into two cultural areas — the mainly Scots, or English, speaking Lowlands, and the mainly Gaelic-speaking Highlands.
		Equally, there is a strong movement in the Aberdeen area to have Doric, the dialect of Scots spoken around Aberdeen, recognised as a language.
	www.usgovernetics.com /Sat-to-Sev/scotland.php (6727 words)

	Kingdom of Scotland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Originally, Scots owed their allegiance primarily to their Clan chieftain or the laird, thus the High King consistently had to keep them in favorable dispositions, or else risk armed conflict.
		The members were collectively referred to as the "Three Estates" for nearly all of parliament's history: composed of the first estate of prelates (bishops and abbots), the second estate of lords (dukes, earls, parliamentary peers and lay tenants-in-chief) and the third estate of burgh commissioners.
		Scotland's monarch, James VI, King of Scots, succeeded to the throne of the Kingdom of England in 1603, becoming King James I of England, after the death of Queen Elizabeth I of England.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kingdom_of_Scotland (2450 words)

	British banknotes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Bank of England Series D 1 pound note was discontinued in 1984, being replaced by a pound coin.
		Following the theft of £22 million from its money handling centre in Belfast on 22 December 2004, allegedly by the Provisional IRA, Northern Bank announced on 7 January 2005 that All its notes were to be recalled and reissued in different colours and styles, and using the bank's new logo.
		Main article: Guernsey Pound The Guernsey Pound is legal tender only in Guernsey, but also circulates freely in Jersey.
	british-banknotes.iqnaut.net (1468 words)

	Penny weight ??? - Nuggethunting Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		It was divided in the same manner as our Troyes pound, into twelve ounces, each of which contained a real ounce of good copper.
		The English pound sterling, in the time of Edward I, contained a pound, Tower weight, of silver, of a known fineness.
		English, French, and Scots pennies, too, contained all of them originally a real pennyweight of silver, the twentieth part of an ounce, and the two-hundred-and-fortieth part of a pound.
	www.nuggethunting.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=684 (1158 words)

	Telegraph \| Sport \| Boks pound laboured Scots into submission
		But the former was rendered meaningless by a back-line that was too often stuck in reverse gear, while the latter was never going to have a significant influence on the final result of a match in which the Springboks had steamed away with four tries.
		The Scots could have grounds for complaint about the intervention of the match officials in their opponents' two tries in that period, but they could hardly quibble about the margin on the scoreboard.
		Before too long, the Springboks were churning their possession through the phases as efficiently as before, the reward coming when Andre Snyman, the veteran wing recalled from Leeds, provided their third try, finishing a move that had stemmed from spilled Scotland ball in the middle and an arrowing run by Jean de Villiers.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /sport/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/sport/2006/06/11/srsafr11.xml (696 words)

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