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'I congratulate you on the head of Oriuna; in return, I nust communicate to you two very valuable presents I have ately had in your way — the one a gold coin of the Emperor Arcadius, the reverse VICTORIA : AUG., the other a Roman ring — I cornelian set in silver, with a Sagittarius. It has been broke, but I have repaired the breach by gumming a peice of thin leather on the inside, which has restored it to its former shape. I have likewise a silver Gallien, the reverse PRÆTOR: RECEPTUS, which I imagine to be scarce. I have made a large addition to my coins, but imagine there are none very curious.'
(Lukis 1882-1887, vol. 1 p. 482) +
'Enclosed I have sent you a catalogue of the coins of Carausius in the possession of the Rev. Mr. Wm. Myers, of Walton, near Landguard fort. They were found in the parish of Felixtow.
1. Imp. Carausius P : F. Aug. - Caput Carausii laureat.
: Felicit. Aug : P : S : R. - Navis Praetoria. Arg.<br>
2. Imp. Carausius P. Au. - Cum capite radiato Apollini<br>
: C : M : C. - Monstrum alatum. Æs<br>
3. Pax Aug. - Pacis typus F : O. in area. Æs<br>
4. Comes Aug. Victoria stans dextra lauream, sinistra palmae ramum. Æs<br>
5. Securit. Figura stans cruribus decussatis sinistro brachio columnae incumbens, dextra ramum oleagineum, ut pacis signum praeferens. Æs<br>
6. Laetitia Aug. Figura stans, dextra gestat coronam, sinistra anchorae innititur. Æs<br>
7. Imp. C. Carausius P : F : AUG. Cum capite radiato. Pax. Aug. Figura stolata stans, Oleæ ramum elatum tenet dextra, sinistra hastam per transversum, a dextris in area S. a sinistris P. in ima parte vixxi. Æs<br>
8. Pax ut supra, nisi in ima parte MI. Æs<br>
9. Provid. Aug. Providentiæ typus. Æs<br>
10. Imp. Carausius P : F. Aug.<br>
: Virtus Aug. Figura militaris dextra hastam, sinistra clypeum. Æs<br>
11. Figura militaris, dextra clypeum, sinistra hastam. Æs
The above is transcribed verbatim from Mr. Myers's letter. I have in my own custody as follows, all of brass.
1. IMP : C : CARAVSIVS : P : F : AVG. Capite laureat.<br>
: PAX : AVG. In area F. Pacis typus. Ære.<br>
2. IMP CARAVSIVS : P : F : AVG. Capite radiato.<br>
: PAX : AVG. In area F. quære P. subter ML. Figura stolata stans dextra flosculum praeferens, sinistra hastam.<br>
3. IMP : CARAVSIVS : P : F : AVG. Capite radiato.
: TYPVS : AETERNITATIS : qu : AETERNITAS : AVGVSTI. Revers: ut numm. primae seriei Addison, p. 185.<br>
4. IMP : C : CARAVSIVS : P : F : AVG. Capite radiato.<br>
: Figura stolata stans, dextra virgam, sinistra hastam tenet in area numine S : P. Subter iiixxi.<br>
5. IMP : CARAVSIVS : P : F : AVG. Capite radiato.<br>
: Figura stolata stans, dextra virgam sinistra hastam tenet.<br>
6. IMP : CARAVSIVS.<br>
: NAVIS : PRAETORIA.<br>
7. IMP : CARAVSIVS : P : AV. Capite radiato.<br>
: Figura stolata stans, dextra virgam, sinistra hastam gerit. PAX : AVG.
These are all that I have of Carausius. I have a promise of what Sir Will. Bunbury has in his collection: likewise of Doctor Symond's & Tom. Martyn's.<br>
Pray when do you publish your life of Carausius?"
(Lukis 1882-1887, vol. 1 p. 483-5)
'I lately saw our friend Tom Martin, who tells me he has about thirty Carausius's which he will either give you in London, or send them to me in order for my conveying them to you for your perusal.<br>
...<br>
I have picked up a few more Carausius's, but all of the common sort. Enclosed I have sent you the draught of a seal that has just fallen into my hands, & I take to be a very great curiosity, belonging to some of our quondam religious neighbours. It seems to have been extreamly well preserved, every letter beingperfect ; it is of bell metal. The seals themselves are round, the handle hexagonal. It was found by some turnip houghers in Brandon Field, about 4 miles north-west of me.<br>
...<br>
P.S. — If you meet Tom Martin claim the Carausius's in my name. I desire your opinion of the enclosed seal, as likewise of the date of it.'
(Lukis 1882-1887, vol. 1 p. 403) +
'I have not been unmindful of your injunctions to me about Tom Martin’s coins of Carausius, but he is really so very unsteady that I cannot tell how to get them. He assured me the last time I saw him that he would call on you in London, & give you four coins that he then had in his pocket, but whether they will ever reach you, the man in the moon, if there is such a monarch, knows better than I do.'
(Lukis 1882-1887, vol. 1 pp. 404-5; Burnett 2020b, p. 1286 n. 1092) +
'I should have answered your knid letter of 8th ult., but the continued illness that has been in our fimily has hitherto prevented me. I have made enquiry about the coins at Landguard fort, but there is no such thing as coming at the coins themselves. The legends of them I have formerly sent you. Dr. Symond's I will endeavour to get the first opportunity. I have the promise of others, but I find people very averse to lending the coins themselves, though hope to procure some. The silver Carausius you mention was IMP : CARAVSIVS : P : F: AVG. Caput Carausii Laureat. Rev., FELICIT . . . AVG. RSR. Navis Pretoria.
Upon revisal of my letters I find the account of the above with ten other brass coins of Carausius was sent to me June 22d, 1751, from W. Myers, of Walton, near Landguard fort. I have the legends of the rest now before me, of which, if you have not my account by you, I will send you particulars. I cannot get Tom Martin's coins : nothing but fair promises from that quarter. I have heard a great character of the ruins of Palmyra. I am promised the perusal of them from a neighbour.
I have lately been highly entertained with a discovery that has been made by a gentleman in this neighbourhood who was heightening a meadow of his, in order to which he was carrying on some sand from a sand-pit that was sunk in the side of a hill, and when they had entered the hill a little way they found a number of broken fragments of Roman urns, they say in the whole to the amount of above an hundred already, and they have by computation above three thousand loads of the hill to remove still ; but through the carelessness of the workmen they have not preserved above thirteen entire, every one of which are differently wrought. I took draughts of the thirteen whole ones, and have a promise of all those that they shall find (for they continue discovering them daily). There is one among them, a very small one ; we examined it, but found nothing in it but pure sand. The rest of them had only sand at bottom and top, and the ashes and bones near the centre of the urn. When they have finished their enquiries I will send you draughts of the urns, and further particulars. The spot where they were found is between Rushforth and Brettenham, in Suffolk, and about a furlong east of the great Roman road, and within a stone's cast of the river. In one of the urns was found part of a Roman lady's comb made of box, and a piece of iron. The comb is broken and verj brittle. No coins have as yet been found in any of the urns. In a close some distance off was found a very fine medal of the emperor Vespasian, the reverse Judæa Capta, and another of the empress Justina, a medal but of middle size and whitish metal. You see I am not inattentive to affairs of this kind when chance directs me to them. I shall be extreamly glad if I can procure you any further discoveries from this fragment of arabia deserta, and that it will raise your opinion of our barren lands as a nursery of antiquity if not fertility.'
(Lukis 1882-1887, vol. 3 pp. 196-8)
'I must now acquaint you with another employment I am engaged in. I am turning a collector of coins, which has been occasioned by a parcel of coins given me by Governour Hayes, &, amongst many others, have got the following :—<br>
A silver coin, finely preserved, & inscribed IMP : NERVA : CAES : AUG : P : M : TR : P : C : III. ; reverse, PATER : PATRIÆ.<br>
A silver coin, IMP : C : POSTUMUS : P : M : AUG. ; reverse, MONETA : AUG.<br>
A silver coin, GALLIENUS : IMP : AUG. ; reverse, GERMANICUS : MAX : L.<br>
Another silver coin, reverse, JUNONI.<br>
The following are copper :—<br>
FLAVIUS : JUL : DELMATIUS : NOB : CAES.<br>
D : N : VALENS : MAX : AUG.<br>
FLAV : JUL : CONSTANS : NOB : CÆS.<br>
FLAV : VAL : CL : CONSTANTINUS : NOB : CAES : AUG.<br>
FLAV : CONSTANTINUS : JUNIOR : NOB : CAES.<br>
FLAV : JUL : CONSTANTIUS : MAX : PIUS.<br>
D : N : FLAV : VALENTINIANUS.<br>
IMP : CAESAR : TETRICUS : AUG.<br>
IMP : P : P : TETRICUS.<br>
FLAV : JUL : CRISPUS.
A copper medal of MARC : ANTON : PIUS.
...
I cannot conclude till I have filled the sheet, & while I have room to add a word more. As you are a collector of coins, if I can be of any service in procuring for you any you want, I may have it in my power to get them at a very easy rate.'
(Lukis 1882-1887, vol. 1 pp. 475-9; Burnett 2020b, p. 1326) +
'By this bearer I do send you two peeces of silver geven unto me by the Earle of Salisburie. Let them have a place amonge your old Coynes, and I pray you to Let me know your opinion what coyne you conceave them to be; they were found with one of the late traytours that was executed, and so I kept.' (BL< Cotton MS Vespasian F XIII/2, f.326; Burnett 2020b, p. 187) +
-Lettre du 19 avril 1718 (de Londres): Went to Vaillant’s the bookseller & obtained the books A.C. required, the binding would cost 4s a volume in calf skin gilt. Vaillant has just recd: from the Custom House two vols of Byzantine Medals by Blanduorius. (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Ballard 20 fol. 102). +
'I long for ... a specimen of sir Andrews Saxon Coines. Till I have them I cannot shew my book, upon shewing of which my future collections will depend.' (Bodleian Library, MS Ballard 12, f.148r; Harris 1992, pp. 374-5, letter 230; Burnett 2020b, p. 1600) +
-Lettre du 28 décembre 1703 (de ?): “Sir Andrew Fountaine hath finished all his draughts of the coines, and Burgers is gone down with them, and they will all be engraven, and printed by Candlemasse day [2 February]” (Harris 1992, p. 392–3, Letter 255; Burnett 2020b, p. 1605). +
'I also wish I could see one of those Coines of W. Conqu. y<sup>t</sup> I might take a draught of it, and add it to the Saxon, and the Normanno-Saxon Coines, w<sup>ch</sup> make one part of my book, that now draws near its birth.' (Burnett 2020b, pp. 587, 1216 n. 323) +
-Lettre du 6 décembre 1703 (sans lieu) : Besides all the Saxon manuscripts his book will contain all the Saxon coins printed with a dissertation on them by Sir A. Fountain. The whole book will be in 2 large folios. The Durham society has been by far his best patrons and subscribers. “… You’l have all the Saxon Coines in sculpture much above double the number, that have been printed, with a dissertation upon them by Sir Andrew Fountain.” (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. hist. b. 2 fols. 137, 138; Harris 1992, p. 389–90, Letter 251; Burnett 2020b, p. 1605). +
'In that letter I told you I would send you some originall letters if you would please to take copies of them and send back the originalls, and that I would send you my thoughts of the inscription of your Runic coin. Ever since I came from Oxford till within these 3 or 4 dayes, I have been so ill that I could not mind my studies, even writeing of letters was irksome to me. But now, I thank God, I am well again, and intend to give you my conjectures upon your coin, which I will send you as soon as I know your pleasure about the above-mentioned letters.' (Thoresby 1912, pp. 105-6; Burnett 2020b, p. 870 n. 166) +
-Lettre du 30 octobre 1703 (de ?) : "I think I formerly told you, that the Numismata Saxonica would be one part of my great work, which is almost ready to be published, in two great folios. The gentleman that undertook this part is very fit for it, being as otherwise a general scholar, so particularly a great nummist, as famous as any at home or abroad, for his knowledge of coins. His name is Sir Andrew Fountaine, formerly bred in Christ Church, Oxon, well known to my Lord Archbishop of York. He hath heard that you have many of the Northumbrian kings, with which he is very desirous to crown his work, having had great supplies from the curious in all parts; and we make it our joint earnest request to you, that you would be pleased to send up those coins to us, for which I will be bound to restore them in any security; or the draughts of them, if you have them suitably delineated, or, if not, that you would be pleased to get them suitably drawn for us, and whosoever you shall employ to do them, shall be rewarded by him. I have had the confidence to desire manuscripts and coins from all persons and places; and my success, who was never yet denied, makes me thus impudent to desire your coins, or a draught of them. If you grant us either of these favours, you will oblige him to make an honourable and immortal mention of you in his preface, and me to do the same in the catalogue of my benefactors" (Hunter 1832, vol. 2, p. 36–37; Burnett 2020b, pp. 870, 1604). +
-Lettre du 2 décembre 1703 (de ?): “Mr. Kirkshaw most punctually and faithfully discharged the trust you reposed in him: for he brought your coins and letters to my house, and delivered them to my wife, I being gone betimes not well to bed. The next day I sent for Sir Andrew Fountaine, and delivered the box and your letter to him, and let him see by your letters to me, how much confidence you put in us both. We are both sensible of the great obligations you have laid upon us in committing so considerable a treasure to our trust; for indeed it is the finest and most curious nest of coins that I ever saw, of that kind; and I do not wonder that you take such delight in them. Sir Andrew will, in a little while, go to Oxford, and deliver the British coins to Mr. Lhwyd. I hope my book will be published by Lady-day. I desire to know where I may leave it bound to be sent to you, as an acknowledgment due to your good wishes to it, and as a benefactor to it by your coins” (Hunter 1832, vol. 2, pp. 40-1; Burnett 2020b, pp. 871, 1604-5). +
'I cannot forbear informing you that I had very ill lick at Cambridge as an Antiquary; for Dr. ''Parris'', the public librarian, was at London, and had the key of the cabinet of coins, so that I could not see them. I was not quite idle, for I saw what are in Trinity and St. John's library, and commenced acquaintance with a most valuable man, Mr. Mason of Trinity, the Woodwardian professor, a general good scholar and excellent Antiquary; through whose Kindness I not only saw those in Trinity library, but have likewise taken impressions of several. I met there with a groat of Henry VII with the side-face and numerals VII which gave me great pleasure, as having the mint-mark, a dog’s head, directly the same as in a groat I have of those commonly called Henry VI with the closed arch crown, and which I always said were truly of Henry VII...' (Nichols 1812-1815, vol. 5, p. 429; Burnett 2020b, p. 389) +
'The MS you mention of Lord Stamford’s coins cannot fail of being very curious and instructing. I please myself with the thoughts of seeing it when next in town.' (Nichols 1812-1815, vol. 5, pp. 430-1; Burnett 2020b, p. 1035 n. 246) +
'Dear Sir!
I receiv’d the kind favour of Yrs of Tuesday last. I should have thought myself inexcusable in not calling on you, had I not been inform’d you was at Peckham, where my Time & business would not permit me the pleasure of waiting on you. I should be extremely glad to meet Mr Fairfax & our brethren you mentioned could I be sure of the day, & if not prevented by a fellow of Bennet Coll. Camb, whom I every week expect at Codicote. If any day next this week you will let me know if the day is fix’d. & I will do my uttmost to meet the Company.
You mistake a little as to my having a Collection of the Coins of Carausius: I had indeed about half a Doz, w<sup>ch</sup> are vanish’d I know not how, they were not rare or curious, tho’ I sent to Mr Vertue one or two, w<sup>ch</sup> Mr Battely in vain sought for; but our friend seem’d afterwards to put no value on them, tho’ identically the same as were wanted. The French Dissertation you referr to I doubt not is Histoire de Carausius Emp de la Grand Bretagne Collegue de Diocletien & de Maximien provee par les Medailles per ''Genebrier'' 4to Paris 1740. As none but extreme few of those medals are found any where but in England tis no wonder if some have been found by Dr Stukely which have not appear’d elsewhere & that he should erect a large superstructure upon small material is no wonder.
Peter Thompson’s Aquitaine coins I have seen. Mr Frederic has one but of a different mintage, & I have the type copied from Hautin’s scarce book.
Had Sr John Brute (as Ld Justice Clerk call’d him in a letter to our Society) been demolished instead of the Mill, I believe but little pity would have follow’d.
When I sent your Catalogue of Coins I inclos’d it in a Bag, w<sup>ch</sup> I greatly miss as being very usefull, w<sup>ch</sup> I hope you have taken care of; & may be usefull for a Book w<sup>ch</sup> I intend to borrow of you.
The Coins with XII & NE I never knew the History of them before & I am obliged to you for it. I am always glad of any new information, or to rectify an old mistake.
To our great Terror, a Locust was found alive between Hertford & Hertingbury yesterday.
I am Sir ...
G. North
Codicote Aug. 14th 1748' (Bodleian Library, Gough Gen. top. 108 (1); Burnett 2020b, p. 1312)
'Mr Addison has been good Company for me of late; yesterday he went forwards towards Prague and, I suppose, upon his return will print his essay on Medalls, which is a very ingenious piece.' (Kew, The National Archives, SP 105/66; Burnett 2020b, p. 843 n. 178) +
'A violent aversion to discussing on any serious concern wher avoidable, where any difference of opinion is to be expected, prevented my taking notice of a few words that dropped from you after dinner the day I dined with you when I was last in town. They related to an offer made to the King of the refusal of the medals; whether in case they were put up for sale, or whether a downright offer for them for a specified sum was made, I never could exactly make out, but I conclude the offer must have come from you, that he might purchase them only ''in case they were to be sold''. ... I cannot think of giving my consent in a hasty manner to the sale of so considerable a property. ... The box that the medals are now in, being of wood without iron hops or any thing of the kind, that another strong iron-hooped chest should be made, for the present one to be put into without its being removed from the Bank, & that chest should have some strong locks with four different keys ...' (Burnett 2020b, p. 1686) +
