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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
As the tables of English silver coins published by the Society contain little more than a bare description of the several pieces, with their legends and devices on the reverse; and as there are some in the first and second plate which are truly historical; an elucidation of these from the historians who wrote of those times, and lived in or near them (though thought too long for a note to have been inserted at the bottom of the page), may be matter of entertainment to those gentlemen who collect our English coins. I hope the following particulars will in some measure point out the occasions on which these coins were struck.
page 135 note 1 Soon.
page 136 note 2 very often
page 136 note 3 civil
page 136 note 4 self
page 136 note 5 certainly
page 136 note 6 not
page 136 note 7 kindred
page 136 note 8 by which he may be known
page 136 note 9 will take care to give him
page 136 note 10 have
page 136 note 11 no name to be called by
page 136 note 12 I am willing
page 136 note 13 them
page 137 note [a] N° 21, Plate I. of the Society's tables, is a coin of Henry bishop of Winchester, Stephen's brother; on which he is represented with the pastoral staff in his hand, the legend Henricus Epc.; on the reverse are the arms of Winchester, with Stephanus Rex.
page 138 note [b] Scriptores post Bedam, Henry of Huntington, p. 227.
page 139 note [c] Society of Antiquaries Coins, pl. ii. N° 7. a young face, with long hair, over the head three fleurs-de-lis instead of a crown, a scepter in his right hand, and three annulets engrailed before the face. It is most likely that Henry brought a minter with him who struck this coin, it being more elegant and in a better taste than any of the preceding or subsequent reigns.
page 139 note [d] Hoveden, p. 281.
page 139 note [e] Speed, p. 481. Math. Paris, p. 72. Polydore Vergil p. 200.
page 139 note [f] See this treaty in Hollinshed, vol. iii. p. 61.