'I know not how to bee sufficiently thankfull to you for your great civility in communicating to us part of that great treasure of antiquities in your hands, whereof we have made such use as we have thought necessary or convenient to our busines. But I feare we shall have need of your candor if we have not returned exactly all and every one of your owne; for amongst so great confusion and multitude it is possible some have been changed. But could we know wherein we have failed, either by the weakness of decaying memory or eiesight, or any other way, I shall endeavour to recover your owne, or to satisfy you with something equivalent. Meanwhile, I am not satisfied with your leathern coine, which indeed is cut out of an old-fashioned covering of a booke. The coine you conceive to bee of Alexander Pyrrhi f[ilius] I think indeed to be an ancient Greek coine; I dare not particularize it, but it rather looks like Alexander Cassandri f[ilius]. Your Canutus doth not seem neer so ancient as his time, but rather to have been made after his death, how long I know not. That Rodbertus is of Robert son of Willm the Conqueror; the other is Robert Bruce of Scotland. What I had to say concerning the rest, you will finde in the Declaration, wherein is also an acknowledgment of your kindenes, tho’ not according to your worth, for which also I must entreat your pardon; the reason was because the distance between us hath rend’red you too much a stranger to us, and I dare not say anything but what I can justify.' (Thoresby 1912, pp. 31-2; Burnett 2020b, pp. 853 n. 14, 865 n. 125)
