'I thought the best way of answering your request about the names of modem Antiquaries, was to send you a list of such as belong to the Society of London. [A list follows].
The few I know any thing of, are: 1, the President, who is a nobleman of general taste and learning ; 2, Dr Blackstone, the Vinerian Professor at Oxford, author of Magna Charta well skilled in the antient laws of his country ; 3, Dr Barton of Oxford, who has a most valuable collection of coins, and is a great judge of them; 4, Dr Birch, who is a good Historian and Biographer ; 5, Gustavus Brander, Esq., who has a good collection of coins and medals; 6, Dr Burton of York, whom you know; 7, Dr Ducarel, who has published an Account of the Anglo-Gallic Coins, a Repertory of the Endowments of Vicarages in the Diocese of Canterbury &c.; 8, Dr Gifford, who has one of the best collections of Saxon and other coins in the whole kingdom, and is a great connoisseur therein; 9, Dr Hunt of Oxford, Hebrew Professor there, a man of great learning, especially in the Eastern Languages; 10, Mr. Lye, who published that valuable book, call'd Junii Etymologicum Anglicanum; 11, the Earle of Macclesfield, whose character yon must be acquainted with ; 12, Dr Morton, who, as I remember, is said in particular to understand coins well, but to be vers'd in many other parts of Literature; 13, Mr. North, who had a dispute with Mr. Pegge about a supposed gold coin of one of the Saxon Kings, and is said to have had the better of the argument; 14, Mr. Pegge, Rector of Whittington near Chesterfield, who published the Life of Roger de Weseham and many other very ingenious pieces, and who is reckoned a very good judge of Enghsh antiquities; 15, Dr Pettingal, who has wrote a curious Dissertation on the Latin inscription on the copper table, discovered in l732, near Heraclia, in the Bay of Tarentum, in Magna Grsecia, and published by Mazochius, at Naples, in 1758, also, the late Dissertation on the word Tascia; 16, Mr. Stuart, who is publishing the Ruins of Athens in the very pompous manner which I mentioned to you ; 17, Dr Stukeley, whom I need not describe; 18, Philip Carteret Webb, Esq., who has also published an account of the table which Dr Pettingal wrote upon, likewise an account of Domesday Book, and another of Danegeld; 19, Mr. Wise, who published a Letter to Dr. Mead, concerning some Antiquities in Berkshire, particularly the White Horse, in the Vale of that name; also, Farther Observations on the White Horse; with an Account of Whiteleaf Cross, in Buckinghamshire, and the Red Horse, in Warwickshire, &c.
