It was much lighter and easier to carry unlike the coins they normally used.
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the branch of science concerned with the chemical and physicochemical processes and substances that occur within living organisms.
Much like today, the key entertainment for Elizabethan London was: sports, visual entertainment (plays, for the time), and gambling.
Tennis, in particular, became a particularly popular sport during the Elizabethan age while artists like Shakespeare came to prominence with plays that the common masses enjoyed.
They signed the Mayflower Compact, which legitimized their self governance