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MONETAGIUM. 99three years, due from each hearth in Normandy formoneyage, and for feuage, or the privilege of cuttingwood in the forests for firing. It seems to have beenpeculiar to that duchy, and was paid,or at least onepart of it, that the money might not be changed ;forin those times the seigniorage which was taken uponevery alteration of the coins was highly oppressive, andit was therefore commuted for by this tax. It wasintroduced into England either at the time of, or soonafter, the Norman Conquest." Mr. Carlyon-Britton continues," The duration of a type was thus fixed at a mini-as certain thatmum of three years, and itmay be regardedwas in force neither William Iwhile this regulationnor William II would allow a type to be of longerduration than three years. It therefore follows thateach type, in the absence of the demise of the Crown,ran for a period of three years."The statement attributed to Du Cange does notappear in any edition of the Glossarium the; explanationof Monetagium in this work 4 is quite clear andof some importance the; primary sense "given is, Idquod Monetarii, seu Monetae fabricatores, domino, cuiusest moneta, exsolvunt ex monetariae fusionis et signaturaeproventibus. . .(quotations from French charters,etc.) . . . Haec autem exactio quam nostri Seigneuriage,quod ex monetae signatura percipiatur, vocant, antiquispenitus ignota, sub prima Kegum Franc, stirpe in usufuisse videtur . . .(reason for this statement follows)."The second sense given by Du Cangeis that to whichEuding refers: "Praestatio quae a tenentibus etvassallis domino fit tertio quoque anno, ea conditione4Du Cange, Glossarium Mediae et Infimae Latinitatis, sub" Monetagium."H 2