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fretina

fretina, ~um [OF fretin, ferdin; cf. ME ferþin < AS feorþung] , small coin, farthing. 1233 proprium ~um suum fabricabunt ad ‥ cuneum suum Pat 405; 1335 de denariis nobis mittendis pro ~a Lit. Cant. II 108 tit. (cf. ib.: soixante livres de fratine qe vous ‥ voudrez changer pur deniers); 1335 liberavit ‥ Thome le May xxiiij li. xiij s. iiij d. in ~a prout fuerat ponderata ipsa ~a infra nostrum monasterium per aurifabrum de civitate Cant’ (Day Bk.) DCCant. DE/3 f. 61.

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