We have mariners, moneyers, minstrels, and watchmen.

In Hereford, as in other cities, there were moneyers, or coiners.

Practically each tax, each due, must have been at least doubled, and the sheriff himself was at the mercy of the Exchequer moneyers.

[Illustration: Merovingian Gold Coins, Struck by St. Eloy, Moneyer to Dagobert I. (628-638).

But he was born in either 1520 or 1530 at Mons in Hainault, and, according to the old Annales du Hainault, he changed his name from Roland de Lattre to Orland di Lassus because his father had been convicted of making spurious coin and, as a "false moneyer," had to wear a string of his evil utterances round his neck.