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The manuscript is damaged and the transcription on EMLO is considerably more lacunose than that given here, which is taken from Hearne 1885. +
'The list is not signed. It is a copy of another document, and is written in the same hand as several of the other items in the same manuscript volume, so we cannot use the handwriting to identify the author. The volume contains a series of papers relating to the Society of Antiquaries, and the list was identified by Woolf as ‘a list of cabinets visited by Stukeley from 1720 to 1730.’ Woolf’s date seems a little early. The biographical details the list contains suggest that it was drawn up in c. 1735, and we know that Bryan Fairfax acquired his quarter-florin of Edward III after 1736 and before 1745. Thus, the list can be dated to 1736–7.<br>
William Stukeley (1687–1765) would fit the dates as author, and he was the first Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries, from its foundation in 1718. However, the author of the list seems most interested in the later medieval and early modern coinage, which were not among Stukeley’s principal interests. One might, then, suspect that it was written by someone else. The only other clue to the author is his statement about Thomas Granger’s ‘Edw: 6th ... half Quarter Peice in Armour with his Demi Effigies very fine. I fear this was once mine & parted with.’ However, there is no listing of such rare pieces, and no firm conclusion can be drawn from it.<br>
There might seem to be several other candidates for the author. One possibility is George North, who is recorded as having seen the strange piece with a date 1490, described the list as being in the Granger collection, though only much later, in 1752. North is known to have visited Cambridge, though abortively, in 1744. But the date is perhaps a little early for North. George Vertue also made a list of important English coin collections in 1737/8, but his list is somewhat different.<br>
The most likely candidate is, in fact, Martin Folkes, who was assigned the gold and silver English coinage as part of the 1724 initiative taken by the Society of Antiquaries, and who, when it was abandoned in 1731, embarked on his own publications of English coins. He is known to have consulted the Bettesworth (the same piece) and Cambridge collections,4 and had good access to the Pembroke collection after the Earl’s death in 1733. He also cited Bryan Fairfax’s acquisition after 1736 of the previously unrecorded quarter florin of Edward III.5 Finally, Folkes reported in 1745 that ‘I have seen among what are commonly called the siege pieces, a TWENTY-SHILLING-PIECE of gold, struck at Pontefract.’ ‘Mr. Brian’s’ piece was unique at the time, and for a long time thereafter, so this effectively identifies Folkes as the author of the list. As he was abroad from 1733 to 1735, the list would have been prepared a couple of years after his return.' (Burnett 2020b, p. 1649)
This is taken to be a letter by Burnett 2020b, p. 140 because of the nature of the contents, but there is no indication of addressee or of date. That the author was Bainbrigg is suggested by the fact that the MS looks like other papers in the same part of the volume that have been attributed to him. Many of the notes seem to be intended for Camden. +
