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100 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.ut monetam mutare ei non liceat, quae Focagium [etEevelatio monetae] dicitur, obtinebatque potissinmm inNormannia . . .(quotations from charter of LouisHutin, 1315, pro Normannis; Yetus Consuetude Normanniae;charter of Henry I of England, quoted above ;French charter of 1319) . . . Haec eadem praestatioin minori Britannia 5 obtinuit, ut in voce Foagiumdocuimus ;concessa etiam aut usurpata ab iis quibus iuscudendae nionetae competebat, quod in plurimis Chartislegisse se testatur D. le Blanc, pag. 156 ... (statementof its introduction into Aragon by Jaime I in 1236, andof its removal in France by Charles V in 1380 ; quotationfrom Peiresc). . ." 6It is, therefore, clear that the use of Monetagium asa foundation on which to build a system of datingcoin-types is itself founded on the assumption thatthe tax to which Domesday and HenryI's Charter ofLiberties refer is identical with the tax which is knownto have been instituted by William the Conqueror inNormandy, and that Du Cangefirst lent credit to thisassumption by quoting HenryI's charter in thissense beside the Consuetude Normanniae and Frenchcharters.Stubbs is more cautious in the glossary to his SelectCharters, where he translates monetagium, " mintage, apayment by the moneyers for the privilege of coining ;otherwise explained as a payment by the subjects toprevent loss by the depreciation or change of coinage."In order to consider whether the English tax should5Britannia minor is, of course, Bretagne.6With the two other senses," Jus cudendi monetam " and " Monetaeofficina," we are not here concerned.