Millard County Chronicle | 1926-01-28 | Page 7 | First Use of Purse Credited to Romans

First Use of 01 Purse 1 Credited to Romans Only In the advanced stages of ot civilization civilization civi civi- among and Anglos Angos was the purse used for payment was mostly mostly mostly most most- ly in In kInd or service But Dut the Roman Invasions having Introduced coinage and new methods of ot trade money bags soon became n necessary These among both peoples were of ot leather with strings of ot varied lengths by which they were closed at the mouth or attached to the girdle By Dy the Saxons Anglo-Saxons they were styled b being perhaps perhaps per per- haps some reference to the girdle side or to the I gift of God At the death of ot Charlemagne the traditional belief bellet of his people that he would need his purse to pay his hs way as he traveled toward Paradise led to their entombing with him a agUt gilt gUt traveling pouch which he be carried on his bs Journey to Rome Not until the Middle Ages are references references refer reter- I found to purses made from irom linen or silk and their Introduction and the general use of purses purses' of all aU kinds has been attributed by Lacroix almost entirely entirely en en- to the Crusades