'Mr West … told me in a Letter from Lond. of March 24th that that day ended the Sale of Books and Prints of the late Mr Bridges. … He says the Book of Coins from Q. Elizabeth to the Commonwealth, which occurs in the Catalogue, p. 171 num. 3702, was sold for three Pounds and a Shilling to the Duke of Devonshire. This is a great Bite, it being only some Coins jumbled together (the first of wch is one of H. VIII, & there is but one, and no[t] one of K. Edw. VI nor Q. Mary), that Mr Whiteside [Keeper of the Ashmolean] borrowed of Mr Nash of Wadham College, & had some few Copies wrought off, & he gave me one, & since Mr Whiteside heard that this little Thing sold so extravagantly he hath got the Plates of Nash again, in order to have more wrought off. There is also a little Book of some forreign modern Coins, likewise wrought off also from Plates, that Mr Whtiteside had of Mr Nash, wch I have likewise.' (Hearne 1885, vol. 9; Burnett 2020b, p. 1237)
