William Nicolson, 1718/03/02
'I went with the Bishop of Asaph [Wynne] to wait on the Earl of Pembroke; who discoursed very learnedly on the Antiquity of the Runic Alphabet, Coins, &c.' (Jones - Holmes 1985, p. 679; Burnett 2020b, pp. 904 n. 181)
References
- ^ Jones, Clyve and Holmes, Geoffrey (1985), The London Diaries of William Nicolson, Bishop of Carlisle, 1702-1718, Oxford.
- ^ Burnett, Andrew M. (2020), The Hidden Treasures of this Happy Land. A History of Numismatics in Britain from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, BNS Special Publ. No 14 = RNS Special Publ. No 58, London, Spink & Son.