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is standard silver coin, as distinguished from Black Money (q.v.). The term is used early in the sixteenth century, and in a tract by Thomas Har- man, entitled A Caveat or Warening for Vagabones, 1567 (42), occurs the passage: " He plucked oute viii. shyllinges in whyte money."

Beaumont and Fletcher, in their play. Wit at Several Weapons, 1647 (ii. 1), have the lines : " Here's a seaI'd bag of a hundred ; which indeed. Are counters all, only some sixteen groats Of white money."

The name was also common to Scotland, and in Blackwood's Magazine, 1820 (p. 158), there is a sentence: " My hand has nae been crossed with white money but ance these seven blessed days."