'I return you my humble thanks for your kind offer of the perusal of your coins: might it be done without inconvenience, I would entreat the sight of what ancient British, or what Roman concerning Britain, as also those of the Saxons, which I did not peruse in the edition of the History of King Alfred. Your Runic ones also will be useful to us: I value most those which have faces upon them, the reverses being generally of the governors of the minting-places, or the names of the mint-masters; which is also the like in those of ancient Gallia and France: the reason might be, that their evil coining might be known and punished, but this renders their reverses not so considerable as those of the Romans. If that Description of Coins and Medals be thought worthy of a second impression, I will take the confidence to beg your assistance, because we shall then add the description also of particular coins. Your inscriptions will, I doubt not, be very acceptable to the editors of Camden, but my province only concerns the coins. That medal of Kendal is very considerable, for thereby he appears to have been a very eminent and considerable person. Turcupellerius, if I mistake not, was General of the horse of the Order [of St. John of Jerusalem], and belonged to the English nation; whereof, no doubt, but the most worthy was chosen. I have seen medals also of others of our nation who were eminent amongst that honourable and famous Order; but this is more notable, because it expresseth his presence at that famous siege, and in so eminent an office, where the great Mahomet was worsted.' (Hunter 1832, vol. 1, pp. 139-40; Burnett 2020b, p. 854)
