]> 2026-05-30T03:30:36+00:00 William Nicolson - Edward Thwaites - 1699-07-10 0 en 1699-07-10Z 2341797.5 'I had a very pleasing and fine Entertainment from M^r Sutherland, their famous Botanist who (besides a wonderful Variety of Plants, in an excellent Method, &c.) shew’d me the richest Collection of Medals and Coins that is perhaps in any private hand in the King’s Dominions. He has near 700 Roman Denarij, Consular and Caesarean, with different Reverses; sometimes above twenty of the same Emperour. He has few pieces in Copper and Brass; and the reason he gave me, was, because (in Scotland) there are forty silver ones to be found for one in either of those metals. I wonder’d at it: since the Case is quite otherwise here in Cumberland. Besides a vast number of old English and Scotch Coins, he shew’d me above a hundred old Pennies of Neighbouring Princes (in France, Flanders, Germany, &c) coin’d about the time of our Edwards, first and second; all of which were quarter’d, and bore stars, &c just as our English ones of that time. Its too late, I find, to make any corrections in y^e last Chapter of my Library, about our English coins. Otherwise I have some observations that would have been of good use to me. I must content my self with the hopes of seeing my work better’d, in this as well as other particulars, on a second edition. Amongst his foreign Medals, that of Charles the Ninth (of France) was very remarkable. It was struck just after the Parisian Massacre in the year 1573. and has this inscription on the Edge ''Verae Religionis assertori''; which shows that the giving a Legend there is more antient than M^r Evelyn conjectur’d it to be. Another he had of Pope Gregory the 13^th on the same occasion; on the reverse whereof was a destroying Angel cutting down all before him, inscrib’d ''Hugonothorum Strages''. Amongst his Saxon coins I saw a CENVVLF REX which (by some circumstances) I took to be different from that in Cambden, and certainly belongs to our Northymbrian King of that name.' (Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson D 377, ff.46-7; Harris 1992, p. 303 n. 4 (corr.); Burnett 2020b, pp. 797, 1539-40) 14606 MS Rawlinson D 377, ff.46-7 English Camden 1586 Harris 1992, p. 303 n. 4 (corr.) Nicolson 1699 Burnett 2020b, pp. 1539-40, 793, 797 coin collection roman roman imperial roman republican bronze scottish english medals saxon 14606 William Nicolson - Edward Thwaites - 1699-07-10 Correspondence.png 2023-08-07T13:00:31Z 2460164.0420255 2023-12-15T11:46:38Z 2460293.9907176 false William Nicolson - Edward Thwaites - 1699-07-10 0 0 plainlist leaflet 1 [[:William Nicolson - Edward Thwaites - 1699-07-10]] William Nicolson - Edward Thwaites - 1699-07-10# QUERY46bda3ae72a67827e2ce9182147dbd5e 0 0 csv 1 [[:William Nicolson - Edward Thwaites - 1699-07-10]] William Nicolson - Edward Thwaites - 1699-07-10# QUERY466f32205e24f7ef197194f60a4fdbe6