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And the storyteller began to tell of a poor man who had one thousand bezants and who was on his way to see the sheep trader, and for each coin he received two sheep.

Prof Rausing - rated at No 1 in the Rich List 2001 with a personal fortune of pounds 4 billion - is attempting to have the Bezants' claims for unfair dismissal stopped on the grounds that his former MD fiddled expenses and submitted unlawful tax returns.

And last night the Bezants' three grown-up children gave their new brother and sister a warm greeting.

Then the Bezants, who live in Oxfordshire, read of women in their 50s giving birth after IVF treatment.

The Bezants discovered only one clinic in Britain, the London Gynaecological Clinic in Harley Street, would implant women over 51.

I wonder how the Bezants will cope with twins at the age of nearly 57.

The church is mentioned in 1469 when an Arnat Mode sold it for 150 bezants. Unfortunately, we don't know who bought it.

Coffers that once overflowed with bezants, the currency of choice in Europe for centuries, were now empty.

it is recorded that when one British crusader, Robert Marsh, set off in 1201 the property he took with him included 22 "bezants", as Byzantine coins had come to be known in Britain.

Mehmet still wished to take the city, but he announced that he would lift the siege if the Emperor paid an annual tribute of 100,000 gold bezants. Alternatively, all the citizens could leave with their possessions and no one would be harmed.