Falaise acknowledges to have been paid by the Viscount of Falaise ten sous and ten deniers tournois for the execution of an infanticidal sow, and also ten sous tournois for a new glove.
He also puts into the account "ten deniers tournois for a rope, found and furnished for the purpose of tying the said pig that it might not escape.
For the pig's board the jailer charged two deniers tournois a day, the same as for boarding a man, thus placing the porker, even in respect to its maintenance, on a footing of perfect equality with the human prisoners.
Jehan Micton, hangman, acknowledges that he received the sum of fifty sous tournois from Thomas de Juvigney, viscount of Mortaing, for having hanged a pig which had killed and murdered a child in the parish of Roumaygne.
Toustain Pincheon, jailer of the royal prisons in the town of Pont de Larche, acknowledging the payment of nineteen sous and six deniers tournois for food furnished to sundry men and to one pig kept in the said prisons on charge of crime.
Money," gives the livre tournois of this period as 18.
Hence the equivalent in gold of the livre tournois is very little less than 1l.
But his election was in this fashion: he was a poor clerk which came to the court of Rome to plead a cause about his Church, which had been taken from him, which brought in twenty pounds tournois a year.
It hath been ordained this day that the English shilling, being worth 12 pence sterling, shall go in this island for 12 sols tournois in payment, and receate and other species of English money in proportion.
The actual current money was French; and any variation in its value compared to the livre tournois would have, of course, to be regulated in Jersey.
Pistolet at 2 solstournois less than the Escu soll.
The island being flooded with foreign doubles, no one shall be compelled to take more of them than the value of 2 sous tournois per crown of the money to be paid to him.
Liards of France, alias Grand Doubles, are to go 6 to the sol tournois; but none need accept more than 7 sols tournoisat each payment.
The livre tournois is now held to be worth 1/14 of the Guernsey pound sterling--e.
The form of the tournament bâton of a later time is given in full detail in the "Tournois du roi René.
It will be remembered that a contemporary writer estimates the combined revenues of the two Orders at eight hundred thousand livres Tournois per annum, and of this the larger portion probably belonged to the Hospital.
But one must practise a bit of hermetic science when one is only procurator of the king in the ecclesiastical court, at thirty crowns tournois a year.
The distinction of livres Tournois and livres Parisis was maintained until the days of Louis XIV.
In the commencement, therefore, of this piece the gros Tournois was synonymous with the sol.
Parisis d'argent, issued only by Philippe de Valois (of fine silver, 4 deniers in weight = 15 deniers Tournois or 1 sol.
Paris livre and made the livre tournois the money of account.
To Raymond de Vlino, for having made three hundred and fifty coats of arms, at twelve deniers Tournois each, amounting to the sum of seventeen livres, ten sols Tournois; this 17 liv.
To the Receiver of the said crusade, for having been to place the troncs and collect the money, for the attendance of thirteen days, the sum of twenty-eight livres Tournois 28 liv.
Of other money found in the said tronc on the day and year aforesaid, arising from the pardons and jubilee of the crusade, the sum of four hundred and ninety-nine livres, fifteen sols, four deniers Tournois ci.
The king of France, who himself exhorted him to take the cross, lent him seventy thousand livres tournois for the preparations for his voyage.
To those who sealed the said confessionals, both on parchment and on paper, and for having folded them, the sum of four livres Tournois 4 liv.
The constable shall go likewise, he and fifteen knights, upon the same condition as the sieur de Valery, but he shall only receive four thousand livres Tournois of the king.
The Bishop of Rodez was conducting a vigorous episcopal inquisition, and at Najac had handed over a certain Hugues Paraire as a heretic, whom the seneschal burned "incontinently" and collected over one thousand livres Tournois from his estate.
Toulouse, his reason was found in the excessive revenues of the bishop, amounting to forty thousand livres Tournois per annum, although it had already been shorn of nearly half of its territory by Boniface VIII.
We have a specimen of this in letters of the Inquisitor of Narbonne in 1264, granting absolution to Guillem du Puy in consideration of his giving one hundred and fifty livres Tournois to the Inquisition.
In 1317 we learn that during the past eight years the king had spent the large sum of six hundred and thirty livres tournois on that of Toulouse alone, and he also regularly paid the jailers.
The pious Franciscan Salimbene informs us that a hundred thousand livres tournois were raised and Honorius IV.
At the beginning of the following century the Duke Louis d'Orleans ordered billes et billars to be bought for the sum of eleven sols six deniers tournois (about fifteen francs of our money), that he might amuse himself with them.
You will also observe, Sir, that when exchange is at four fifths, one livre tournois is equal to fourteen pence and two fifths of a penny, Pennsylvania money.
On his return, he reformed the coinage, and by his order, silver Parisis and Gros Tournois were struck, upon which chains were figured, in order to preserve the memory of his captivity.
The livre Tournois was so called from being coined at Tours, and was one-fifth less in value than the livre coined in Paris; thus afterwards the livre Tournois was valued at twenty sous, that of Paris at twenty-five.
The Tournois were a double-faced folk, the nobles were for Burgundy, the merchants and people for France, and the city had not made submission on the death of Charles the Bold but had claimed freedom under French protection.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tournois" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
