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Mine; excavation under a castle or city wall to gain underground access and/or to undermine it.

1. Manner; way; fashion.
2. à guisa - fully armed.
3. à meia guisa - partly armed, half-armed

Moio (from Latin modius); dry measure roughly equivalent to 1,200 litres or 266 gallons.

1. Bushel.
2. Old dry goods measure.

1. Maravedí.
2. The Castilian maravedi by the time of Pedro I of Castile (mid-14th century) had ceased to be minted and became an accounting monetary unit, i.e. a reference value for other coins and a reference value that was very familiar at the time.
3. 1 silver maravedí (Alfonso X, 1281) = 1 French gros tornés (Louis IX, 1266)
4. 1 maravedí (Enrique II, 1373) = 6 cornados = 10 dineros = 12 cinquenes = 60 meajas.

1. Cornado.
2. Coin minted by Enrique II of Castile in which the silver content was lower than the value attributed to the coin. This is past of a monetary reorganization introduced by Enrique II to pay his debts during his military campaigns to secure the crown of Castile. These measures were effective, but caused very high inflation.
3. 1 cornado = 1/6 maravedí.
4. 250 cornados = 1 marco.

1. Cruzado.
2. Coin minted by Enrique II of Castile.
3. 1 cruzado = 1 maravedí = 10 dineros novenes
4. 120 cruzados = 1 marco
5. Bibl: De Francisco Olmos, José María, 'La moneda de la Castilla bajo medieval. Medio de propaganda e instrumento económico', in II Jornadas Científicas sobre Documentación de la Corona de Castilla (siglos XIII-XV), Madrid, 2003, pp. 298-302.

1. First strong silver currency in Castile. Introduced by Pedro I of Castile in 1351, and remaining stable till the end of the reign on Juan II.
2. In the days of Pedro I of Castile it became the basis of his monetary system with coins of 1, 2, 4 and 8 reales, and fractions of the real, such as 1/4 and 1/2 real.
3. 1 real = 1/12  dobla = 3 maravedíes = 11 dineros = 70 marcos.
4. 1 real de vellón = 1 maravedí.

1. Bailiff.
2. Justice.