'[The manuscript] falls into two parts. In the first, after a list of authors and a few introductory pages about the name and agriculture of Britain, mistakes in Polydore Vergil, and the division of Britain (ff.3r–18v), it contains a series of notes and quotations from ancient authors, arranged chronologically from Julius Caesar to Valentinian III (ff.19r–63v). The second part (ff.86r–end) looks more like notes for his promised Mores. It starts with clothing and language (Vestitus Britannorum; De lingua veterum Britannorum), and covers many other similar topics, including a long list of errors by previous writers.
Rogers knew Budé’s great work, since he refers to it in another context, but he does not seem to use it to refer to coins. In fact, despite the help he was given, coins have only a small presence in his notes, and certainly a lesser one than inscriptions. On ff.72v–73r, he gives drawings of inscriptions he saw in Bath in July 1598, with a reference to Camden, and several pages (ff.74r–82v) have quite a long compilation of ‘Inscriptiones antiquae historiae Britanniae’ cited from Aldus (Manutius) and elsewhere. In the body of his notes under the different emperors, he uses an inscription for Claudius, the ‘Camaladonum’ one (taken from Lipsius),62 and later uses another for Antoninus Pius (f.37r), taken from Aldus (Manutius). But texts are his much-preferred source: even ancient British rulers like Cunobelin or Caratacus are cited only from them (f.24v).' (Burnett 2020b, p. 107; individual references to coins are discussed on pp. 107-10)
