Bodle
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A bodle or boddle or bodwell, also known as a half groat or Turner, was a Scottish copper coin, of less value than a bawbee, worth about one-sixth of an English penny. They were first issued under Charles I, and were minted until the coronation of Anne. Its name may derive from Bothwell (a mint-master). It is mentioned in one of the songs of Joanna Baillie: Black Madge, she is prudent, has sense in her noddle Is douce and respectit; I carena a bodle. The use of the word survives in the anglicised phrase "not to care a bodle", which Brewer glosses as "not to care a farthing". Something similar appears in Burns' Tam o' Shanter (line 110), it is also mentioned: Fair play, he car'd na deils a boddle (He cared not devils a bodle) __NOTOC__
A bodle or boddle or bodwell, also known as a half groat or Turner, was a Scottish copper coin, of less value than a bawbee, worth about one-sixth of an English penny. They were first issued under Charles I, and were minted until the coronation of Anne. Its name may derive from Bothwell (a mint-master). It is mentioned in one of the songs of Joanna Baillie: Black Madge, she is prudent, has sense in her noddle Is douce and respectit; I carena a bodle. The use of the word survives in the anglicised phrase "not to care a bodle", which Brewer glosses as "not to care a farthing". Something similar appears in Burns' Tam o' Shanter (line 110), it is also mentioned: Fair play, he car'd na deils a boddle (He cared not devils a bodle) __NOTOC__
Gallery
Post-Medieval Scottish Coin (FindID 250281).jpg | Turner or Bodle of Charles I, c.1642-1650 AD Charles II Turner (or Bodle) 1663 (FindID 389031).jpg | Turner or Bodle of Charles II, c. 1663-1668 AD Coin, Scottish Turner or Bodle of Charles II (FindID 484303).jpg | Turner or Bodle of Charles II, c. 1677-1679 AD Coin 1692 (FindID 431328).jpg|Bodle or Turner of William and Mary, 1692
See also
Plack Pound Scots Scottish coinage
References
MacKay, Charles – A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch (1888) Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
External links
Elks, Ken. Coinage of Great Britain
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