Of these, the first was strictly regular, being merely a repetition of the scutage of 1156, at the rate of two marcs instead of twenty shillings.
Secondly, this sum resolves itself, on analysis, into two constituents of 84-3/4 marcs each.
So too the Yorkshire thegn who held six Manors or less paid three marcs to the sheriff; if he held more than six, twelve marcs to the king (Domesday, i.
A donum of (it is said) two marcs on the fee from the under-tenants of the lay barons, raised partly by counties and partly by fiefs.
Now the endowment of St Denis, according to them, included two marcs out of the tithes 'de Lavingaham en Angleterre'.
It is noteworthy that thirty-six marcs would represent just three shillings a day (for forty days) for each knight, the very sum named by Hoveden.
In the second column I give the marcs due, and paid on this occasion, on the old assessment (servitium debitum).
When the Spaniards had taken possession, they began to extract the silver, and he who had a mine gave each Indian who entered it a marc, or, if he was very rich, two marcs every week.
The father was harvesting, and Marcs was out with the sheep.
The wooden chest Marcs had made for her, and Bruno had carved and painted, began to fill with webs of linen and wool, the gifts of her mother and the other matrons, and some that had been spun and woven by Marcia herself.
There were stone statues like those she and Marcs sometimes made in clay for the children to play with, but as large as men and women and painted to look like life.
Marcs was like his father, square-set and strong and rather silent.
Marcs looked rather disturbed, and he was in a hurry.
He had never built a boat before he and Marcs made theirs the summer before, but he had shaped a steering oar that was better than the one he copied.
Livia sprang up at the first sight of Marcs and Bruno, for Marcs was bleeding all down one side of his face and his shoulder, where a stone had glanced along.
She did not even see that Marcs was driving in the sheep until they began crowding into the sheepfold.
In spite of that, so heavy was the drain on the spare purse where it had not been expected, she found to her dismay that she had only twelve marcs left to meet the new bill.
Then a man came in and called the passengers' names, and when they answered they were made to pay two marcs each for the pleasant bath we had just been forced to take.
He gave King Richard MDCCC marcs that he might reside in England with the King's good will.
With poorer ores, as for instance those of 4 marcsto the monton, 12 cargas are applied in summer, and 6 in winter.
Each operation may be conveniently finished in twelve hours; so that each alembic may refine with ease 160 marcs daily.
The argentiferous galena ores of Cumberland afford 11 marcs per caxon; while the average produce of the Potosi silver ores is only 5 or 6 marcs in the same quantity.
The dust from the furnace (tiegeloefen) is collected in a large condensation chamber of the chimney, and affords from 40 to 50 marcs of silver per cwt.
In metals of five to six marcs and a half per monton (of the average richness of Zacatecas), 16 lbs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "marcs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
