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Extract from the Voyages and Travels of Marco Polo 9 page 135 . In Pinkerton ' s Collection of Voyages . 44 money of the great Khan ,
is not made ot gold or silver , or other metal , but they take the middle bark from the mulberry tree , and this they make firm and cutjnto divers round pieces , great and little , and imprint the king ' s mark thereon i Of this
paper-money therefore the Emperor causeth an huge mass to be made , in the city of Cambalu , which sufficeth for the whole empire , and no man under pain of death , may coin any other or spend any other money , or refuse it in alf nis kingdoms and
countries , nor any coming from another kingdom , dare spend any other money in the empire of the great Khan . " Hence it follows that merchants after coming from remote countries unto the city of Cambalu ,
brjflg with them gold , s ilver , pearl , and precious stones , and receive the , Mi * g ' s flio ^ ey fpr them ; and because this money is not received iii their country * they chajige it in t ^
aga ^ u e Empire of the great Khan , for merquandise , whiqhihey c WfJ W " 'tfejfc „ ^ ^ payeth stipends to his officers an ^ J
arrny , in the apove mentioned n * oney ; a ^ l J ^ l y ^ whatever thiflg he , needs in ^ qpwt , % J ? WP ^ w ; th this money . Wh ^ ejfo ^ tjh e r ^ is QQt 9 , ^ Uig tp % found tp j ^ h e ™ im * m ° fr * &tj * fh km ' v * fi& * s iy ^ , not e ^ pe n 4 e ^ pjx fas & ^? elaewhei ; e . ^ ,
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J ? er $ e £ uttfffl . I » et $# f K flf * I hpy ? pr ^ uxed ^ ^ gMt oCt ^ e IfttM
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work by Fox , mentioned page 220 ; in the valuable library of Dr . Williams . It is in one folio volume . The following is an sex * . act copy of the title page , which may be acceptable to some of your readers .
Rerum in Ecclesia gesturum ^ quce postremis et periculosis his tern poribvs evenerunty maximarum qut per Europam persccutionum ^ at sanctorum Dei Martyrum *
cceterarumque rerum qua tnsignions exempli sint , digesti per Rcgna Sf nationcs Commentarii . Pars Pri * ma . In aua urimiim de rebus ver ma . In qua primum de rebus per
Angliam et Scotiam gestis , atque in primis de horrenda , sub Maria nuper Regina 9 persecutionef narra tio continetur . Autore Joanne
Foxo Anglo . Bailees . 1559 . It appears from Fox ' s Life in Biog . Bri t * ( fii . 2022 ) that the 1 st Book of his Commentarii was ^ published at Strasburgh in 8 vo . in 1554 , while the author was an exile during the
persecution under Mary * From the folio volume I quote the 1 st P 3 g £ * 9 f which I g&ve Mr . Peirce ' a very correct translation ( P , 220 )« Qmd nifecipstf * sunt qui put ant epfsqopQs ultimum ei supplicium
m , olituros , Nam ita audivi a fa mulo ipsius , Ducem Suffoldoe clam Hopearym * qui eprum conatusnon ijgnorohaty pr ^ e / nonui ^ e . The Duk of Su ffolk ip $ s Itfrely enough to he w , ejji i nfor ^ d , being * unele to the k W& by Ws marriage to Mary , the sister of H ^ pfy , asd yQueen Dowagex of Fj ^ ttce . Fqx afterwards re $ e # a % o tldwards ' ¦ protection © f JiPJP ©^ ag ^ ns t the bkhofs in tl ^^ oij ^ jg tenw , JEtomimecxeg i * voluntas , we cam * pquitas tu&ri pqpstfi 3 FI * ew is ah ) o preaerved , the aiiOj . o ^ ty givejgi todftidley by tittl Kjipffi- / *** jCPUpieil to cbm ^ orate Hooper , without incjurang a Fwt *
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Sketch of English Protestant Persecution . Letter III . 391
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1812, page 301, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1748/page/21/
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