John Trapp on Mark 6:8-11

Verse 8. Save a stasse.] Such a one as may ease and releive you, not such as may curb and hinder you, Matth. 10. 10. So that seeming contradiction is assoyled. No money in your purses] Gr. No brasse in your girdles. The [non-Latin text not transcribed]. most usuall materiall of money among the Roman Princes was seldome gold or silver, most times brasse, sometimes leather, Corium [illegible: 1 word] publicâ [illegible: 1 word], as Seneca hath it. The like is said to have been used here in England, in the times of the Barons Wars. And why not? sith Opinion sets the price upon these outward good things; and Anno 1574. the Hollanders, then being in theirHist. of [illegible: 1 word]. extremities, made mony of past-board.