jeniuy

1) Almost certainly a coin from Genoa.

It is unlikely to have been a reference to the ‘jane’ which was the editor’s suggestion, since this was apparently a silver coin, but it may have been the ‘genovino’. This was a gold coin of Genoa first minted in 1150 and copied later in Florence and Venice: 1581 in token of my good will towards them I do give to either of them a gold Jeniuy of the value of halfe a crowne a pece , Leconfield.

places Leconfield
dates 1581

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