What is Robert Corn "worth"?
1) Add up the pounds, shillings, and pence separately.
£3 (burial)
40 shillings + 20 shillings + 20 shillings + (2 shillings per priest, guestimate 3?)= six shllings + 4 shillings + 10 shillings + 1 shilling + 6 shllings = 107 shillings total
8 p (construction ["werkes"] at St. Paul's)
2) Divide the pence by 12 to determine their worth in shillings and add whole shillings the shilling total.
still = 8 pence
3) Divide the shillings by 20 and add any whole pounds to the pound total.
107s / 20 = £5 with 7 shillings left over + £3 = £8
4) Recombine the totals in the order "LSD" or Pounds, Shillings, Pence.
Robert Corn's capital wealth after payment of debts appears to be £8.7.8
5) Estimate the value of his property.
"the bed of tree, with the chest atte the foot" and "the lauour of peuter with the basyn of led"; "the led that light in the stuys" and "the sesterne that longeth to the stuys, and the bordes & the gaudroun in the kechyn that stont in the forneys"