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LO N D O N : F: PITMAN, 20, PATERNOSTER ROW.

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V o l . II. No. 8.1 JANUARY, 1876. [P r i c e 2 d .

C O N T E N T S . Page Scale of Charges for Advertisements. Roman Coins. Chapter IV. By IV. H. Taylor 1 Some Account of the Coins of England from s. d. the Conquest ( Continued) ...... 2 Song ...... 3 Whole Page, one insertion ...... 15 0 Popular Antiquities. Half do., ditto ...... 10 0 Diet of the Earl and Countess Percy ...... 3 Quarter do., ditto ...... 5 C A New Way to pay Old D ebts...... 3 One-eighth do,, ditto ...... 3 6 Provincial Journalism ...... 4 Nidderdale Notes...... 4 Forty Words ditto ...... 2 0 Philatelic Gossip ...... 5 Twenty do. ditto ...... 1 3 I Literary N ew s...... 6 Recent Archasological Discoveries in Warwick­ shire ...... 7 Notices of articles for disposal or exchange, 20 words 4 s, Queries, and R e p lie s ...... 7-8 or less, 6d .; Id. for every additional 4 words.

JAS. H. HOOPER, COINS. 30, MINTERN STREET. NEW NORTH ROAD, IfNGLISII, REGAL, COLONIAL, ROMAN, &c. LONDON, N. * J Fine American Collection (Catalogues, 3d.) ¿STAMPS BOUGHT, SOLD, OR EXCHANGED. CHINA, ANTIQUES, &c. Constantly in receipt of quantities of all kinds BATTY, 10, Cathedral Y'ard, Manchester. of COLONIALS. Offers from Dealers requested. Selections sent on approval at very low prices. WANTED. Agents Wanted. COTTISH COINS, MEDALS connected with Scot­ S Land. and TOKENS. PVE RY MAN HIS OWN PRINTER.—PRINTING Address, with Particulars and Price, to X.Y.Z., J PRESSES fall iron), 25s., complete to £5 5s. Beith, N.B. Specimens of work, type, Ac., for one stamp and plain address. ANTZIC SPRUCE BEER, 14s. (Id. per Keg; Inventor and Manufacturer, D CRANBERRIES, 4s. per Keg. JABEZ FRANCIS. ROCHFORD, ESSEX. Geo. W. Mortimer & Co., Importers, 13, Holderuess Amateur's Guide, G4 pages. Illustrated, 13 stamps. Road, Hull.

m W O SHILLINGS.—Baum’s Swiss Fairy LOUIS SENF, _| Organs.” Patented, Gold Medals awarded. These powerful and dulcet instruments produce the most DEALER IN POSTAGE STAMPS, charming melodies. Per parcel post, 24,3G, or 60 stamps L eipzig, G ermany, NE SHILLING.—“Baum’s Geneva Pocket Editor of the ‘‘Illustrates Briefmarkeu Journal” Timepiece.” (Patent). Denotes correct time. ANTED a largo stock of all tare and OSize of a Half-Crown. In Electro-compo Metal. Per­W common Postage Stamps and Envelopes fect balanced action. Steel hands, glass covered. Re­ for the lowest prices for cash, or in exchange. liable in any climate. Free 14 stamps. I offer the rare Baden Envelopes, 12 and 18kr. NE SHILLING. — “ Baum’s Domestic unused, at 14s the set. Handbook for Essay Printing Press.” —Prints Programmes and Bills Collectors Is. Catalogue of all Postage Stamps O of Fare, Cards, Labels, Laundry List», &c. Press, Typeand Ink,Free 14 Stamps.—Jacques 2s. I want also 50 Mulready’s Id and 2d s Baum & Co.. Kingston Works, Sparkbrook, used or unused,and 3 penny V.R.’s. lean | Birmingham. Testimonials, Circulars,

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. rPHE LEGEND OF THE HOLY THORN THE _L that grew at Glastonbury ; also a Poem of the Thorn, with woodcut. Free for 18 stamps. ^Ugenwiter |6ricfmarhen Geiger. Address, T homas S ampson, Yeovil, Mid. Somerset. SEMI-MONTHLY Journal, devoted only Strong Plants of the Holy Thorn, at the fol­ A to Stamp Collecting. Appears since 1871, lowing prices : 3 6, 5/-, and 7/6 each. the 1st and 15th of every month. No. 96 now LSO PHOTOGRAPHS of some of the ready. Annual subscription abroad (24 copies) A most interesting relics of Glastonburg Tost Free, 4s. Single copies 2£d. can be had at the following prices : The Pio- T h e E ditor, ccssion of the Holy Thorn, 18 stamps ; First Hamburg (Germany;. Church in England, A.D. 61, 12 stamps; Old Market Cross, 10 stamps; Abbot Whyting’s WHITFIELD, KING & CO., Kitchen, 18 stamps; Abbot Whyting’s State I mporters of FOREIGN ROSTAGE STAMPS Chair an t Monk’s Chair, 15 stamps; Peter Ipsw ich. Lightfoot’s Clock, 12 stamps; Abbot Whyting’s 7Y1GHT-PAGE Catalogue gratis and post Watch and Seal, with Seals of the Abbey of free. Rare Sheets sent on approval. Glaston, 18 stamps. Many larger views in con­ I Agents wanted. Dealers supplied wholesale. nection with the Abbey can be had, price on application. Foreign Correspondents wanted.

GEO. W. MORTIMER & CO., J. H LACY & CO.. WHOLESALE & RETAIL DEALERS IN FOREIGN STAMP IMPORTERS, Tj’ OREIGN POSTAGE and REVENUE STAMPS, GOMM, ROAD, ROTHERHITHE, ^ POST CARDS & WRAPPERS; LONDON, S.E. COINS, MEDALS, AND TOKENS; 1VORKS OF ART, CHINA, CURIOSITIES, Mr. WM. CHARLES COKE’S ANCIENT BOOKS & AUTOGRAPHS ; BICYCLE AGENCY, PHOTO, SCRAP, AND STAMP ALBUMS ; 8, STATION ROAD, HERNE HILL, LONDON, E,C. PHILATELIC and NUMISMATIC PUBLISHERS. Adjoining the Railway Station. FOR SALE, A fine Engraving' of Charles I. stun- j TDATRONIZED by all the leading bicyclists. Ne moning Hull, with 8ir John Hotbam looking over the ' and second-hand bicycles disposed of at a com­ walls, royal size, fine impression in original state, mission of 2s. per machine. rough edges. Price £2 7s, Gd, Very rare. The ISicj/clist Monthly Magazine, with which is A few “ Lion ” Sixpences, in good preservation, incorporated Mr. YV. C. Coke’s list of machines for price 3s. Gd, each. 17th Century Tokens, from Gd each disposal, and full particulars o f the agency, l.*d post A Collection of Postage Stamps, near 1100 varieties, free. in E. S. Gibbon’s 17s. Imperial Album. Price, £5.

^RESTS™! CRESTS ! ! CRESTS ! ! 1 OSTAGE, Telegraph, and Fiscal Stamps P of Hungary, are sold cheap by me, by TO COLLECTORS. he 10, 100, and 1000 Stamps, 25 beautiful Regimental Crests, fur 7 Stamps. LEOPOLD NEUMAN, 25 Beautiful Crests of H.M.’s Ships. 7 „ Waitznerstrasse, 34, B udapest. 60 of either of the above. 13 „ Price List gratis— offers are agreeable. Every Crest is different. BRITISH THE ARCHEOLOGIST -­ AY be had (by order) at all Railway Station Damns Fetmius ^TEREO'I YPE Blocks jVI i r , ' _ h Bookstalls, or of any Bookseller in the king­ O to illustrate Dealers’ dom : annual subscription, 2s. Gd., in advance. Circulars, Is. Od. Speci­ M- ; Advertisements must be sent in not later than the l L men sheet sent on receipt l C 20th of the preceding month ; 10 per cent, may be que Vjcissiin. it* of id. stamp for postage. deducted for two months’ insertions.

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Vol. II. No. 8 .] JANUARY, 1876. ’ = ~ "j-pWCE 2d.

ROMAN COINS; Rev.— Diana and Victory near a sleeping By W. H. Taylo r. figure. Lucius. Ai. Buca was questor in the in the time of Sylla. The reverse repre­ “ The face o f an old Roman coin, scarce seen,” sents Sylla dreaming that Diana introduces Love's Labour's Lost. him to Victory. 2. Female head, (probably Venus Victrix). Chapter IV.— Consular Coins. Rev.— ii. lepidvs an. xv. pr. H. o. c. s. i.e. ( Continued.) Marcus Lepidus annorum X V . prcetextatus hostem occidit civem servavit. ^OM E approximate idea of the great diversity This interesting coin informs us that ^ of the types of this Consular series may be Lepidus, at the age of fifteen, killed an enemy gathered from the following list, compiled from and saved the life of a citizen. He after­ Akerman, of the number of varieties extant o f wards achieved several important successes, certain Roman fam ilies:— both by sea and land over the Gauls and Æmilia..... M aria...... 46 varieties. Ligurians. Antonia..... 1» Papia...... Calpurnia,. Plaetoria... . 57 A statue was erected to Lepidus, in the Cassia...... 37 *» Pompeia... . 33 Capitol, of which the figure on the coins is Claudia,...... 43 Roscia...... 43 thought to be a copy. Cornelia...... 121 >» Sulpicia.... . 32 ?» Crepusia.... ?» Tituria...... 33 »J 3. pavllvs lepidvs Concordia. Diademed and Fabia...... Valeria...... 34 veiled female head. Julia...... 122 . 79 Junia...... Volteia...... lieu.— ter. pavllvs. A figure erecting a

Marcia...... 42 J» trophy, near which are three captives. As has been mentioned before, much of the This coin depicts the defeat of Perseus, earlier history of Rome is only to be obtained king of Macedon, by Paulus Lepidus. from the information supplied by the consular The three figures denote the captve monarch coinB. We shall therefore proceed to illustrate and his two sons. M. scavr. aed. cvr. ex. s, c. A figure remarkable and interesting specimens of the kneeling beside a camel, hex aeetas. different gentes or families. Rev.--- P. HVPSAEVS. AED. CVR. HVPSAE. COS. .EMILIA. preiver.'(‘capt. Jupiter in a quadriga holding

L L bvca. Head of Venus. a thunderbolt. 2 THE ARCHAEOLOGIST.

This coin represents the defeat of Aretas, his oath to respect the succession in the person oí king of Arabia; and also the taking of Maud, the daughter of Henry I.— who had mar­ ried Geoffrey, Earl of Anjou— was, with the Privernum by M. Scaurus assistance of his brother Henry, Bishop of Win­ The whole of the coins of this illustrious chester,* the Pope’s Legate, and Roger, Bishop family are very interesting and instructive, but of Salisbury, crowned at Westminster after some slight scruples by the Archbishop of Canterbury especially those struck during the triumvirate of on St. Stephen’s day (Dec. 26th), 1135. Lepidus. And now commences one o f the most turbulent ALIA, OR AELIA. reigns in English history, exhibiting, during a period of seventeen years, a constant succession q . la b je n v s PAitTHicvs. iMr. Male Head of battles between Stephen and Maud and her with short beard. adherents, in which, owing to the wretched state Rev.— A horse standing, saddled and bridled» of the country, and the unchecked rapacity anil no legend. insolence of the nobles and clergy, the poorer people were starved, and the common necessaries This curious coin is very rare. of life cost double, and finally, treble their or­ ANTISTIA. dinary prices. Wheat in the beginning of this Obv.— Head of Augustus. reign sold at Is. 3 )cl. per quarter, and an ox was worth 9s, 3-¿

number of mints were in use ; * and bad Stephen lived in happier times, it it not at all improbable gwtiquitteu that the state of the coinage would have been Edited by WILLIAM ANDREWS. improved, as, after the peace with Henry (after­ wards Henry II.), he engaged himself, amongst other matters tending to the improvement of his In this part o f “ The Archeeologist ” it is our desire to kingdom, in actively carrying out one of the furnish Original Articles on Manners, Customs, articles of the treaty, “ that the money should and Literary, Political, and Social Life of the he of silver, and the same throughout the Olden, Time, Obsolete Laws, Forgotten Literature, country,” and it is probable that to this period Folk Lore, Legends, Traditions, fc ., ¿ye, H e most respectfully solicit Contributions on the sub­ belong the better class of his coins, together with jects named, and on kindred matters. A ll articles those attributed to the great persons of his reign, to be written on one side o f the paper only, and to be presently described belong. Stephen died addressed to the Editor, Mr. William Andrews. the 25th October, 1154, and was buried at Faversham, in the monastery, where his bones rested until the dissolution of the Abbeys, in the D iet of the Haul and C ountess P ercy, of reign of Henry VJII., when it is stated, that for L econfield.— Taken from the house-book about the value of the lead in his coffin, lie was disin­ 1430.— One can hardly read the following bill of terred, and his remains thrown into a neighbour­ ing stream. J. H. fare, without, a smile. “ First for my Lord and “'His mints were Canterbury, Cardiff, Chichester, Chester, Lady, a loaf of bread on trenchers; two raanchets Castle-Rising. Derby, Exeter, Gloucester, Hereford, Hedingham, Ipswich, Leicester, Lewes, London, Lincoln, of the finest meal, weighing each six ounces : a Norwich, Nottingham, Oxford, Southampton, Sandwich, Sudbury, S. Edmundsbury, Stamford. Thetford, Worces­ quart of beer ; a quart of wine ; two pieces of ter, Wilton, and Winchester, with probably Reading, Southwark, and Wareham. salt fish ; six baconed (smoked) herrings; four white herrings ; or a dish of sproits,” (sprats.) SONG. This was during 1 the holy feast of Lent.’ “ On K N O W a lily that grows apart, flesh-days, the bread as before ; a quart of beer ; I In the little garden I call my heart; a quart of wine ; half a chine of mutton, or a And the lily blossoms there all the year, piece of beef boiled.” Nor was the hour for In the summer hot, and the winter drear. meals among persons of condition, at that period, In the warming sunshine its blossoms grow, less remarkable. They breakfasted at seven, As pure and as white as the morning snow ; dined at ten, and supped at four ; after which, And I love to tend it, my darling flower, between eight and nine o’clock in the evening’ In the leafy shade of its scented bower. they had their ‘ liveries ’— that is to say, “ for my Oh! lily, my love; hast thou love for me, Lord and Lady, bread, as at breakfast; a gallon Like the tender love that I offer thee ? of beer, and a quart of wine ” (the wine hot and W . L aird-C lowes. mixed with spices); soon after which they went to bed. A.D. 1511, Henry VIII. on his progress M edals.— Men curious of books and antiquities have ever had medals in great estimation, and to Hull, lodged at Leconfield Castle. Henry rendered them a most necessary furniture to their Algernon Percy, fifth earl of Northumberland, libraries, because by them we are not only in­ resided at Leconfield, who about lo20 erected formed whose real image and superscription they the celebrated monument in Beverley Minster.— bear, but have discovered to us, in their reverses, Tomas Waller. what heroical exploits they performed ; besides A New W ay to pay O ld D ebts.— Old local wbat they contribute to the elucidation of many newspapers frequently contain much unexpected passages in history, chronology, and geography. and quaint information. Customs and belief« — John Evelyn. 4 THE ARCHAEOLOGIST. long since forgotten and unknown startle us by This receipt was given by Dr. Troutbeck, and by the matter-of-fact way in which they are referred him caused to be inserted in all Church Registers to. The following extract from Harr op's Manches­ where he came for the good of people, for cer­ ter Mercury for 1771-2 is indeed “ a new way to tain cure.” The foregoing was entered during the pay old debts,” and if common, even then, one time the Rev. Thomas Furniss was curate, a man would think, must have invested certain marriages most active and diligent in performing his duties, with more than usual interest. March 12.— “ On causing improvements to be made to the church, Thursday last was married at Ashton-under-Lyne, a Bchool to be erected at Bewerley. Ilis assistant Nathaniel Eller to the widow Hibbert, both records his death thus :— upwards of 50 years of age; the widow had “ 1735, Jan. 20. Mr. Thos. Furniss Curate of ys only her shift on, with her hair tied behind with Paroch 58 years was buried ye 20th day, after I had been 5 years his curate. He was almost horse-hair, as a means to free them both from 90 years of age.” any obligation of paying her former husband’s Harrison was the name of the curate, and he debts.” thought himself something of a poet as well as a P rovincial Journalism,— The following is a divine. In the Register a couple of specimens specimen of the nature of local paragraphs, and of his poetry occur :— style of grammar in which they were written in “ 1736, Oct. 12. Will. Needham, Clark of the the olden time. Our example is from the Leeds Church buried ye 12 day. Mercury:—“ Leedes January 28 (1723) We “ Farewell poor Clark thou'l say no more Amen, Nor sing thy Fa sol Fa’s on earth again ; hear from W oolley near Wakefield of a apple­ What tho’ thou’s gone to thy first dust to turn, tree that bloom’d in November last has now some One day thou’l rise again—then let’s not mourn” scores of apples thereon, some of which are said “ Thos. Simpson, Poet, o f Bewerley buried March to be as big as walnuts ; and from Batley we are ye 24th of March, 1738. “ Here lies ye body of one, as yet you do not know it, informed that young Stock-Doves was taken in To tell ye very truth, it’s honest Tom the poet; the Parish a fortnight ago. And from Tong, in This versifying witty Songster, Christmas last, Eggs were taken out of a Magpy Has oft employed his pen ’bout many a Youngster; All that these serious lines rehearse Nest; and at Stone Top, near Yeadon, the like Man is immortal made by' making verse. were taken there.” “James Harrison, Curate.” Nidderdale Notes.— In one of the Parish W e may here record an instance of longevity. Registers of Pateley Bridge, Yorkshire, extending The person is buried at Hartwich Chapel, and from 1688 to 1735, on the fly leaf at the end is his gravestone bears the following inscription:— the following receipt:—“ For the biting of a Mad “ In memory af William Dambrough, who, for the dog. Take G oz. of Rue shred, 4 oz. of Garlick forty years of his life was the Sexton of this Chapel. He died October 3rd, 1846, in the one pill’d and stampt, 4 oz. Mithridate or Venice hundredth year of his age, Treacle, 4 spoonful of scraped Tin. Boil these “ Thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace ; thou shalt in two quarts of stale ale in a pot well covered, be buried in a good old age,”—Genesis xx., 35. for yc space of one hour & strain it & give of “ The graves around, for many a year, this Decoction in the morning, three mornings Weie dug by him who slumbers here, Till, worn with age, he dropped his spade, together— 8 to 9 spoonfull warm to a man, or Andjin the dust his bones were laid ; cold to a beast, 3 to a sheep, 4 times a day, p’vided As he now, mouldering, shares the doom, Of those he buried in the tomb, it be given within 9 days of ye bite. Bind to So shall he, too, with them arise, ye wound some of the drugs it was strained from. To share the judgement of the skies.” THE ARCHAEOLOGIST. o

It has been ascertained by an examination of not previously employed from Lagos, Jamaica, Patley Bridge Church Registers that Darnborough Sarawak, Honolulu, &c.; new types from Japan, was one hundred and two years of age. At South Australia, Bavaria, Grenada, d c .; and the Patley Bridge, over a spring of pure water, it is ever-increasing crowd of Russian locals, whose recorded on a stone : “ name is legion.” “ 111 Habits gather by unseen degrees, But the grand object for congratulation, not As Brooks run Rivers—Rivers run to Seas." alone from philatelists, but the whole lettered Nidderdale is a delightful and extensive valley in world, are the international stamps representing the West Riding of Yorkshire. Justice has been the effects of the Postal Union. Of these may done to this interesting district by Mr. William be numbered our own adhesive composite en­ Grainge in his volume entitled “ Nidderdale ; or, velope and post-card ; those o f the United States, an historical, topographical,and descriptive sketch Belgium, Holland, Russia, Canada, and other of the Valley of the Nidd,” and from that book countries not formerly possessing the requisite we have extracted our notes. denominations. T own’ s T ouacco B ox.— At Liverpool a curious More of this nature may reasonably be ex­ Town Hall item occurs under date 1090, when pected in the course of the current year, in con­ the “ two-bellied silver cup, weighing lloz. sequence of the intention of India, and most 14 dwt., is ordered to be made into a tobacco box probably Ceylon and the Straits Settlements, and stopper for the town’s use, to go from Mayor with some, possibly all, of the Australian colonies, to Mayor. It is now used as a snuff-box.— H.E.S. to join the confederacy. Egypt and Turkey will perlxaps be provided ere these pages see the light. Contemporaneously with their publication may be expected more than one new impression which cannot be correctly chronicled till next month ; some few of late appearance, which have not yet becu noticed in the numbers of this magazine, arc: TujtKEY.— Post-card; lithographed in black on very thick, toned white cardboard. Inscriptions PHILATELIC GOSSIP. partly in Arabic, partly French. They are destined to serve locally for Constantinople; have OSTAGE stamp collectors reviewing their no impressed stamp, but require the surcharged P acquisitions during the past twelve months 10 para green to be stuck in a compartment find sufficient additions to fill a whole album in reserved for it the early, and yet comparatively recent, stages of Sweden.—Post-card for official purposes; the pursuit, when black frame; insciiptions, &e., on white; no “ One small book could carry all they had " stamp impressed. An exception to the universal The year 1875 has produced novelties from rule of post-cards, this one allows the correspon­ localities hitherto unrepresented, as Djcmmah dence to be commenced on the address side ! and the Gold Coast, an engraving o f one of whose J amaica.— Two new values : rectangular, values heads this article; entirely new issues from Queen’s laurelled head to left in beaded circle; Spain and her colonies, Wlirtemberg, Finland, Jamaica eosTAGE above ; value in words below in and the German Em pire; partial sets of values colored letters on white in curves, red-brown, fi TUE ARCHEOLOGIST. two shillings, Similar, not identical head, within octagonal frame ; same style of inscription as the LITERARY NEWS. Notice.— A ll communications, books pamphlets, Sfc., preceding, white on colour in straight bands ; intended fo r notice in this department, should be lilac, five shillings. addressed “ Literary Editor, Archaeologist Office, Spain.— For returned letters. Square, arms 20, Paternoster Eon’, E.C." beneath crown, supported by the pillars of Her­ cules, encompassed by circular inscription. Or­ E understand that Mr. Robert Buchanan, namentation at angles. W the poet, contributes the column of German E mpire.— Simultaneously with the gossip, headed “ What the W orld Says,” and New Year appear a complete set of altered signed “ Atlas,” to the World newspaper. postage stamps, of which a fuller account shall Messrs. Beeton’s Annual for the present season be rendered in the succeeding number. is entitled “ Faust and Phisto.” It is much better British Guiana.— The ship-types lithographed written than the last year’s production, and is by Messrs. Waterlow having been worn from long altogether worthy of the best of its predecessors. usage, the authorities have applied to Messrs, de Dr. Maurice Davies is, we believe, one of the la Rue to prepare fresh ones. That firm has, of contributors. course, proposed to exchange the long-known The authoress of “ Coinin’ thro’ the Rye,” device for a hackneyed queen : but we may con­ will commence a serial poem in the January gratulate philatelists that a majority o f govern­ number of the Gentleman's Magazine. Her forth­ ment members have decided to “ stick to the ship.” coming novel, Mignon, may he expected about Great B ritain.— The inscription on our news June, and it also will appear in a serial form, in bands has been enlarged from three to five lines. the pages of Temple Ear, begining this month.

F rance.— In contra-distinction to the beautiful The St. James' Magazine for December was impression above, a representative of the absurd more than ordinarily interesting, and reflects great type chosen for the French Republic, forms the credit upon the editor, Mr. Townsbend Mayer. tail-piece of this article. Among the new periodicals which may be Dr. V iner. shortly expected, or have just appeared, are the Universal Review, a quarterly; the London and Provincial Illustrated Weekly, edited by Mr. Tom Archer, a threepenny rival of the Pictorial W orld; the Weekly Companion, edited by Mr. W. C. Nation ; the Sunday Figaro; and the Laugh mi, a half-crown monthly, edited by Mr. Voysey. A new daily London paper may also be looked for with tiic now year. R evoking a L egacy.— A gentleman directed Mr. Hop worth Dixon, as a protest against the his executors to purchase a copy of the picture Suez Canal sensation, has written a powerful representing a viper biting the hand of the man article for the January number of the Gentleman's who had saved it, and to give that to a certain Magazine, entitled “ The False Move on Egypt.” friend of his, in lieu of a legacy of £3,000 which W e find that an assertion in our last number, he had left him by a former Will, now revoked to the effect that Mr. Edmund Yates is sole pro­ and burned,— Wills o f their own. prietor of the World, is sceptically received. W e THE ARCHAEOLOGIST. 7 repeat i t ; and we repeat it on the best authority. By the bye, the World and the Examiner have (flumes and lUptics. been at daggers drawn, and the Examiner got the best of the combat. P rogression.— One of the Emperors of China, L eh-t e . being anxious to learn the game of Chess, told R ecent ARCH aEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES his teacher that he would give him any reasonable IN WARWICKSHIRE. reward he might ask for. The man demanded \ BOU T a month ago, a most interesting dis- one grain of corn for the first square on the board, E\. covery has been made in a field about a two for the second, four for the third, and so on. mile west of Warwick. Some labourers, in dig­ The emperor on reckoning up the amount was ging for gravel came upon skeletons, other bones, astonished to find that he owed his teacher and with them implements of iron, scraps of 18446743573783086313 grains, sufficient if bronze, and other articles. Mr. J. Tom Burgess, placed .end to end to reach 3883401821 times of Leamington, to whom with other local anti­ round the world. quaries the discovery was at once communicated, “ Canard.”— The F rcnch idiomatic word canard, has pronounced the remains to belong to an early meaning a false report, arose from the publication era of the Anglo-Saxon period of our history. thirty or forty years ago, in the Precurseur The indications from the objects at present D'Anvers, of a sensational descriptive article exhumed seem to shew that the place where they relating to a number of ducks which, it was were found was a burial-ground, and that the alleged, were seen to eat each other. The skeletons are those of some party of Angles who nearest English equivalent is therefore “ a big were encountered near Warwick by the fierce gooseberry.” tribes which held the forest land of Arden, prob­ ably a branch of the W eicii, in the dark period P ublic D ancers.—In the time of Henry VII. ensuing on the departure of the Romans until the dancers must have been well paid, for in sonic time of Augustine. Exchequer accounts we find : £ 8. d. The articles found with the skeletons consist of Paid to a spye, in reward ...... 2 {) 0 umbos, or heavy iron bosses of shields, spear To I’echil, the fool, in rewardo...... 0 i; J* heads, knives, fibula: or brooches, two or three To Richard Beden, for writing of 0 lo 0 illegible coins, a straight sword of a peculiar con­ To the young daraeysell that struction, and a few beads. The brooches are dauuceth ...... ¡50 0 0 seven in number, and of a kind seldom found in W illiam de Beauchamp, E arl of W arwick’s Warwickshire. W ill.— William de Beauchamp, Earle of War­ After these relics have been exhibited to the wick, dated Holy Rood Day, 12‘JG, 25 Edward Society of Antiquaries, they will probably be I., being in perfect health. My body to be deposited in the Warwick Museum. buried in the quire of the Priars-Minors, com­

M ustaches.— Mr. Fleming, an upholsterer, of monly called the (¡ray-friars at Worstcr, if 1 Pimlico, by his Will, proved in 1869, left £10 die within the com pas of the four English Seas; each to the men in his employ— those who did otherwise, then in the house of the Friars-Minors not wear mustaches; those who persisted in nearest to the place in which I may happen to wearing them to have £5 only.—JVilie o f their own. die, and my heart to be buried wdieresocvcr the 8 THE ARCHAEOLOGIST.

Countess, my dear consort, may herself resolve to afterwards, in gratitude, caused the arms of V ir­ be interred ; to the place where I may be buried ginia to be quartered with those of Great Britain, two great horses, viz. those to the which shall and for many years, at least as late as 1773, coins carry my armour at my funeral, for the solemn­ with these quarterings were struck. From this izing of which I bequeath two hundred pounds; fact arises the title “ Old Dominion,” so often to the maintenance o f two soldiers in the Holy applied to Virginia.— Coin and Stamp Journal.

Land, one hundred pounds; to Maud my wife, L egend of the H oly T horn,— W e have re­ all my silver vessels, with the cross, wherein is ceived a copy of this interesting work, and we contained part o f the wood o f the very cross where­ have been much pleased with the careful manner on our Saviour died; likewise the vestments of in which the account is given. Mr, Thomas my Chapel, to make use of during her life ; but Sampson, F.Ii.H.S., is a chatty and painstaking afterwards the best suit to belong to Guy, my writer, and his book will delight all who take an eldest son ; the second best to my Chapel at interest in the study of the past.

Hanslape ; and the third best to my Chapel at T he G lyptic.— This is a most interesting Hanley ; to Guy, my son, a gold ring with a volume by John W . Jarvis, and it is a description ruby in it, together with my blessing; to my of Henry Jones’s Glyptic Museum at Stratford- said wife a cup, which the Bishop of Worcester on-Avon. The author has collected much that gave me, and all my other cups, with my lesser is entertaining about a remarkable man and his sort of jewels and rings, to distribute for the collection of oddities. In a pleasing manner we health of my soul, where she may think best; to are introduced to Mr. Jones, the contents of my two daughters, nuns at Shouldham, fifty whose curious museum are graphically described, marks.— Wills o f their own. and illustrated by excellent wood-cuts, which Philip of Maccdon coined the first gold of number nearly a hundred, from original drawings. Greece, procured from the mines of Philippi in Mr. Jones is a true lover of our great poet Thrace. The art of refining gold had attained Shakespeare, and furnishes many interesting great perfection, for his coins arc of the utmost items respecting the bard.

purity. They are rivalled by those of his son A H orned W oman.— In Leigh’s “ Natural Alexander, and of other princes and cities within History of Lancashire, Cheshire, and the Peak of a few centuries of that age.— Coin and Stamp Derbyshire,” published in folio in 1700, is a Journal. portrait of Mary Davis, taken in 1688, at the age of 72, who is said to have had two full-grown Centennial Coins.— It may not generally be horns on her head, and to have cast them ; had known that Virginia was at one time united with others grown and cast, and so on in regular suc- England, Ireland, and Scotland as an independent cossion of four or five years, the first formation member o f the empire, but such is the case. On having commenced when she was twenty-eight years old. Portraits of this remarkable person the death of Oliver Cromwell, in 1658, Governor may be obtained from Mortimer & Co., Holder- Berkely, of Virginia, proclaimed Charles II. ncss Road, Hull, post free for seven stamps each.

King of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Virginia, R efly.— Vol. I., 7.— In answer to Mr. Twed- and subsequently, when threatened with invasion dell’s query, I think it is a copy of the great seal of Henry VIII. I know of no medal with an by the Parliament, she sent an invitation to him obverse like it, and Mr. T. says the reverse is in Flanders to come over and be King of Vir­ blank, so that it affords no clue.— W . H. T. ginia. Owing to the death of his father and his NOTICE.—Will W.F.J. communicate with the Editor, succession to the throne, he did not accept, but as the M.S. has been mislaid. ROBERT MEISSNER, HERBERT HAWLEY, CASSEL, GERMANY. Dealer in WORKS OF ART, PICTURES, CHINA, COINS, CURIOSITIES, MINERALS, BOOKS, &c. ARGE STOCK of all kinds of STAMPS Whole­ sale, for prompt Cash, or good Exchange. 21, Lamb’s Conduit Street, Holborn, W.C., Price Lists—3d., post free. Offers from his extensive Stock the following : Ail kinds of STAMPS Bought and Sold. A VERY handsome Antique GOLD WATCH, having fine blue Enamel Cases, set with large diamonds , recently fitted with a first-class lever movement, £28. OLD COINS FOR SALE. A very powerful MICROSCOPE, fitted with all accessories, in a mahogany cabinet, by Smith. £19. Nearly 5000 VOLUMES OF INTERESTING n c i e n t Gr e e k , r o m a n , Eg y p t i a n , NOVELS, from a London lending library, to be sold EARLY BRITISH, SAXON, ENGLISH, in one lot, or to suit purchasers, very suitable for a A village library. IRISH, and SCOTCH, in Gold, Silver, and Cop­ The highest London prices remitted fo r Old Gold per, in great variety. and Si leer. LISTS free to any part. Wholesale Agent for The A re ¡urologist.

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M. Moens is the Proprietor of LE TIMBRE-POSTE J. HENRY, An Illustrated Journal for Collectors, appeariugon the 1st of each month. 13th year. Yearly Subscription, 5 francs ; a single number, 50c. And also of LE TIMBRE-FISCAL, An Illustrated Journal for Collectors, appearing on the 1st of each month. 2nd year. Yearly Subscription, 4 francs ; a single number, 40c. The Tenth Edition of the Illustrated Postal and Telegraph Stamp Album, By J. B. Moens, Price from 7 francs to 30 francs. The Descriptive Priced CATALOGUE OF STAMPS, Essays. Ac., contains description of more than 12.000 Stamps. Price 2 francs 50 c. A Supplement to the above, price 50c., contains a description of stamps which have appeared up to 1875. ASHANTEAN GOLD JEWELLERY. A SHANTEAN (¡OLD is n RECENTLY DISCOVERED METAL, 48, DEVONSHIRE STR EET. ami when Manufactured into Jewellery is equal in appearance LONDON, W.C. and will wear like Guinea Gold. Watches warranted equal in and as good timekeeparB ns Watches costing Twenty Guineas, 21s , 27»., and 82s each. Alberts, 4s.; Lrng Chains, 4s ; Largo Double ALFRED SHARPE Lockets, 4s, Hie new Collar Necklet (Registered), 10s. 6d. Gentle­ T NVITES attention to his largo and varied Collection men's complete set of Stud« a il Links and Solitaire, 7b. 6J. and 10s. 6d- A sample Ring 12 Btfliiip«. Detailed List free.—W. O. -1- of CHINA, CURIOSITIES, COINS. & STAMPS. S w e e t and Co , Kilburn, London, N.W Country Agents wanted, The last contains a large number of rare and obsolete varieties. SECOND HAND ARTICLES. TTNREDEKMED Pledges. Job Lots, do., consisting of Watches Sheets sent on approval. The 3d. Packet consists ^ Jewellery, Kleotro-lMate, Sewing Machines, Musical and other of 25 different Foreign Stamps, all guaranteed Insirumeuts, and a large number of domestic and other articles. genuine. Collections purchased for Cosh. No te .—Tho full value iu cash or by exchange immediately returned for Old Coin» , Antiquities, Wearing Apparel, or other 18, Broad Street, Bloojisbury, London, W.C. goods forwarded to— W. C. Swket and Co., Kilbuni, London, N,W. Established I860 Country Agent« wonted. COLLECTION of nearly 200 17th and 18th Cen­ A tury TRACTS & BALLADS, and a few OLD WANTED, SERMONS, many of great rarity and very curious, at AVAL AND MILITARY MEDALS in Gold, moderate prices. A Catalogue may he had, N Silver, and Bronze ; also a VICTORIA CROSS. J. H enry, 18, Devonshire Street, W.C. Apply 3, St . Michael’s Place. Brighton. pOPPER COINS AND TOKENS FOR SALE. ANTED to Purchase TRADESMEN’S TOKENS '- / Wanted Pye & Chetwynd on ‘-Tokens. ' ' of the 17th Century, issued between 1643 k 1072, Address (Post) G., 1, Paragon Terrace, Hackney, Apply, with Prices and Particulars, W. H. Taylob, London. 446, Coventry Road, Birmingham. Shortly will he published in Octavo, on highly-toned paper. PRICE, 8s- 6cL, stiff cover ; or in scarlet cloth, gilt lettered, 10s. 6d.

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Being an outline of the character, personal appearance, manner, and peculiarities of those gentlemen who have offered themselves as candidates for Parliamentary honours for the Town of Kingston-upon-Hull since the year 1G40, with a com­ plete list of the number each polled, the colour lie assumed, and the impression he adopted upon his cards, at all the different elections which have taken place since that period ; including humourous and highly interesting anecdotes in con­ nection with the candidates, both instructive and entertaining ; together with copies of songs and squibs which were printed at the time. Also some interesting letters from Andrew Marvel, not hitherto published, the whole interspersed .with remarks and particulars of the most important local events and sketches of many worthy and noted individuals, who were the ancestors of several leading families in and around “ Auld Hull ” at the present day. The whole compiled and arranged by W . A. G u n n e l l , from ancient manuscripts, now in his possession, commenced in 1640 by one of the Mayors of the Town, and continued by four of his lineal descendants until the year 1858.

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CONTENTS. Page Scale of Charges for Advertisements. Paper Coins and Medals...... 9 — Coins relating to Hull ...... 11 s. d. Roman Coins. Chapter V...... 11 Whole Page, one insertion ...... 15 0 Popular An tiqu ities. Half do., ditto ...... 10 0 Cutting Purses for Undue Casting of Ballast 12 Quarter do., ditto ...... 5 6 Churchwardens’ Accounts...... 13 One-eighth do., ditto ...... 3 (» A Curious Epitaph ...... 13 Forty Words ditto ...... 2 0 Philatelic Gossip ...... 14 Twenty do. ditto ...... 1 3 Literary News ...... 15

Notes and Queries. Notices of articles for disposal or exchange, 20 words Traders’ Tokens. &c., &e...... 15 or less, Cd. ; Id. for every additional 4 words.

JAS. H. HOOPER, COINS. 36, MINTERN STREET. NEW NORTH ROAD, E N G L ISH , REGAL, COLONIAL, ROMAN, Ac. LONDON. N. J Fine American Collection (Catalogues, 3d.) OTAM PS BOUGHT, SOLD. OR EXCHANGED. CHINA, ANTIQUES, Ac. Constantly in receipt of quantities of all kind* BATTY, 10, Cathedral Y ard, Manchester. o f COLONIALS. Offers from Dealers requested. Selections sent on approval at very low prices. MUSIC. A gents Wa n te d . WISH to know where I can obtain a Piece called I “ Little Ernest’s Musical Box." IVVERY MAN HIS OWN PRINTER.-PRINTING Address, Miss H„ c/o Guo. W. M ortimer 4c Co., 1 A PRESSES (all iron), 25s., complete to £5 os. Holderness Road, Hull. Specimens of work, type, Sic., for one stamp and plain address. TXANTZIC SPRUCE BEER. 14s. 6d. per Keg; Inventor and Manufacturer. JABEZ FRANCIS, ROCHFORD, ESSEX. CRANBERRIES, 4s. per Keg. G eo. W. Mortimer it Co., Importers, 13. Ilolderness Amateur's Guide, 64 pages. Illustrated, 13 stamps. Road, Hull.

niVVO SHILLINGS.-—Baum’s Swiss Fairy STAMPS _l Organs.” Patented, Cold Medals awarded. These TT S. TREASURY, per set, Id. ; Interior, per set, Is.; powerful and dulcet insl ruments produce the most charming melodies. Per parcel past, 24,36, or 60 stamps u ’ Post Office, per set, Is. 3d. ; Navy', per set, 2s. ; Justice. 8 kinds. Is. ; War, 10 kinds, Is. Small pay­ NE SHILLING.— “Baum’sGeneva Pocket ments can be sent in unused Great Britain postal Timepiece.” ( Patent). Denotes correct time. cards or unused half-penny stamps. Wholesale and OSize of a Half-Crow: In EJectro-compo Metal. Per­Retail Lists free. fect balanced action. Steel hands, glass covered. Re­ liable in any climate. Free 14 stamps. E. F. GAMBS, NE SHILLING. — “ Baum’s Domestic FOREIGN STAM 1’ IMI’ORTE R, O Printing Press.” —Prints Programmes and Bills 413, South 4 & B St., St . Louis, Mo., U.S. of Fare, Cards, Labels, Laundry Lists, Sic. Press, Type and Ink. Free 14 Stamps.—Jacques WANTED TO EXCHANGE rare U.S. V fl Baum & Co.. Kingston Works, Sparkbrook, Postage and Officials for Great Britain Id. )/)/> —— Birmingham. Testimonials, Circulars, S;e., 1840 black, 2s. blue, 5a. pink, and all kinds of *' vast fr e e . rare English Stamps. si).

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. llli LEGEND OF THE HOLY T H O R N Mr. WM. CHARLES COKE’S T that grew at Glastonbury ; also a Poem BICYCLE AGENCY, of tin1 Thorn, with woodcut. Free for 18 stamps. 8, STATION ROAD, HERNE HILL, LONDON, E.C. Address, T homas S ampson, Yeovil, Mid. Adjoining the Railway Station. Somerset. Strong Plants of the Holy Thorn, at the fol­ ÜATRONIZED by all the leading bicyclists. New and second-hand bicycles disposed of at a com­ lowing prices: 3.6, 5/-, and 7/6 each. mission o f 2s. per machine. LSO PHO TOGRAPHS of some of the The Bicyclist Monthly Magazine, with which is incorporated Mr. W. C. Coke’s list of machines for most interesting relics of Glastonburg A disposal, and full particulars of the agency, l£d post can be had at the following prices : The Pro­ free. cession of the Holy Thorn, 18 stamps ; First Church in England, A.D. 61, 12 stamps; Old Market Cross, 10 stamps; Abbot Whyting’s OSTAGE, Telegraph, and Fiscal Stamps Kitchen, 18 stamps ; Abbot Whyting’s State of Hungary, are sold cheap by me, by Phe 10, 100, and 1000 Stamps. Chair and Monk’s Chair, 15 stamps; Peter Lightfoot’s Clock, 12 stamps; Abbot Whyting’s LEOPOLD NEUMAN, Watch and Seal, with Seals of the Abbey of Waitznerstrasse, 34, B udapest, Glaston, 18 stamps. Many larger views in con­ Price List gratis— offers are agreeable. nection with the Abbey can be had, price on application. OLD COINS FOR SALE. G E O . W. MORTIMER & CO., WHOLESALE k KETA1L DEALERS IN 2J.OLD, Silver, Copper, Saxon, English, Roman, J Greek, &c. Lists Free. T^OREIGN POSTAGE and REVENUE STAMPS, J. VERITY, Earlsheaton, Dewsbury. *■ POST CARDS & WRAPPERS; COINS, MEDALS, AND TOKENS; THE ARCHEOLOGIST WORKS OF ART, CHINA, CURIOSITIES, \T AY be had (by order) at all Railway Station ANCIENT BOOKS k AUTOGRAPHS; Bookstalls, or of any Bookseller in the king­ dom ; annual subscription, 2s. 6d., in advance. PHOTO, SCRAP, AND STAMP ALBUMS ; Advertisements must be sent in not later than the PHILATELIC and NUMISMATIC PUBLISHERS. 20th of the preceding month; 10 per cent, may be deducted for two months’ insertions. FOR SALE, A fine Engraving of Charles I. sum­ Post Office orders to be made payable to moning Hull, with Sir John Hotham looking over the walls, royal size, fine impression in original state, F. P itman, 20. Paternoster Row. London, E. C., or Geo W. Mortimer, 13, llolderness Road, Hull. rough edges. Price £2 7s. 6d. Very rare. A few “ Lion" Sixpences, in good preservation, price 3s. 6d. each. 17th Century Tokens, from 6d each VOLUME I NOW READY, A Collection of Postage Stamps, near 1100 varieties, In wrapper, price Is. 3d. Current or Back Numbers in E. S. Gibbon's 17s. Imperial Album. Price, £i. may be had of any of the following agents : London.— H. Hawley, 21, Lamb’s Conduit QRESTS ! CRESTS ! ! CRESTS ! ! ! Street, Holborn, W.C. Alfred Sharpe, 18, Broad Street, Bloomsbury. TO COLLECTORS. J. H. Lacy. 5,Gomm Road.Rotherhithe, 25 Beautiful Regimental Crests, for 7 Stamps. S.E. 25 Beautiful Crests of H.M.’s Ships, 7 „ Birmingham.—J. Handley, Paradise Street. 60 of either of the above. 13 „ A, B. Matthews, 92, Snow Hill. Cam bridge.— J. Dixon, 9, Market Street Every Crest is different. Castleford.— R. Powell, 2. Allerton Road. " BRITISH Grimsby.— — Gates, 12 k 13 Market Place. Hull. Editor’s Office, 13, Holderness Road. Damns Pel anus S T E R E O T Y P E Blockt Carlill, St. John Street. z U IO to illustrate Dealers H. Bolton, Savile Street, u Circulars, Is. 6d. Sped — Hancock. Spring Bank. et J. S. Harrison, Lowgate. p men sheet sent on receip o , , P- Newton, Charles Street. I JLque Vic Is sira. J. of id. stamp for postage Manchester.—Jno. Hey wood, Deansgate. GUIANA D. T. Batty, 10, Cathedral Yard. YORK.— Hope k Chapman, 3, Castlegate. George W. Mortimer & C o .,

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Reasoning from a like analogy, it might be PAPER COINS AND MEDALS. presumed that all known coins and medals, from

By D r. C. W. V iner. the earliest ages, having been cast from gold, silver, bronze, and other imperishable materials, EADEIiS may remark the apparently a perishable coin or medal would be a thing of inconsistent and incompatible juxtaposition naught— a paper coin or medal, a worthless of terms in our title ; but we trust satisfactorily product. The earlier portion of this article will to prove their perfect propriety. slay the seeming paradox, and the latter be The material employed for the majority of devoted more particularly to illustrate the inter­ useful articles, if not always necessarily the esting topic of our comments. same, is of similar nature. For example, The mention of paper coin naturally gives the articles of furniture may be fashioned out of idea of bank notes ; but they are not really coin, mahogany, and other of the more costly woods, but simply promises to pay money or coin. The or beech, birch, and the homely d eal; but— and paper coins and medals of our essay are neither here is the sine qud non — the piece of furniture more nor less than those almost countless squares, must be formed from some substance possessing circles, triangles, ovals, octagons, and rectangles the requisites of strength and solidity. In like studding the pages of a postage stamp collector’s manner, ships and boats may be built from album. various combinations of wood and metal; but here again, endurance and resistance arc indispen­ And stationed there, they please the eye, In all a strange variety ; sable qualities, or the structure is worse than From many a distant land they come To meet their congeners at home ; useless. Brightly the vivid pages glow, “ Stop ! ” says a sharp young reader, “ I can And every stamp in every row. That strikes the eye ; may strike a chord make paper boats and tables, and paint them like On inem’rv's harp ; aDd all that's stor’d wood ; and I have a pretty little glass vessel with In inem’ry’s chambers, bring to light In full perfection at the sight. all the masts and sails complete.” Guiana’s ship in silence sings Taking leave to interrupt the interrupter, we Of all tho products that it brings ; The swimming fish of Newfoundland would remark that he possesses the mere model Tell of the staple o f its strand ; or imitation of a ship or table, not tho thing Kings, queens, armorials, symbols, eh in®, And tell their tale in many a line. itself ; such model being totally incompetent to While some with figures stand, intent perform the duty of that article for which it To point the coin they represent. Thus marking in epitome is simply a representative substitute. Geography and history. 10 THE ARCHAEOLOGIST.

So far »8 regards our own postals the title of Births, deaths, marriages, coronations, battles, paper coin is both literally and figuratively and victories, are vividly and accurately depicted correct; they being continually and, we believe, by their agency ; and a complete collection of a legally employed for the transmission o f small country’s medals embodies its civil, commercial, sums. Again, there existed what was termed a and military history in imperishable type. postal currency in the United States during the Proceed we now, after this lengthy but not fiscal confusion consequent on their internal irrelative preamble, to the consideration and proof wars, A similar arrangement prevailed during of a postage stamp’s right to the denomination of the monetary difficulties in Italy. But these “ paper medal.” substitutes for coin were in reality government The sole objection liable to be raised against bank-notes for small sums, unconnected with such an appellation, is the non-durability of postals otherwise than in name. The stamps of paper ; the principle and inalienable character­ other countries are rather the receipts for, or istic o f a medal being its permanent quality. representatives of, coin than actual coinage; How is this imperative qualification attainable still, taken as a whole, the former half of our in the case of a delicate postage stamp ? title may stand with propriety. This query— a power to the uninitiated in The second portion needs a very much more philately— meets a ready response from the postage- extensive and discursive amount of argument. stamp amateur, who triumphantly produces his We have no Johnson at hand for reference ; but well-stored album. Therein, as we have hinted doubtless that learned lexicographer would define above, lie history, geography, dates, peculiarities a medal in some such way as “ a reminder of of produce and commerce, emblems, wars and contemporary occurrences.” Such idea prevailed revolutions, the last two, though not facially in the mind of the talented geologist Mantell in portrayed, evidenced by their consequences in his elegant designation of fossils as “ medals of accurately and permanently chronicled chrono­ creation,” logical order. The devotees of geology can judge the wonder­ Our juvenile readers may enquire into the ful appropriateness of such a title to those durable derivation, if not the meaning, of the italicised memorials of the events they silently commemo­ word above, which will be vainly searched for in rate ; events which myriads of ages may obscure, any dictionary wc have yet met with. It was but which tens of myriads will be powerless to invented by a French collector, and is composed consign to oblivion, while the medals— medals o f of two amalgamated Greek words signifying creation— exist in countless multitudes to stamp respectively liking and untaxed. This was with truthful and unmistakeable certainty those thought the nearest attainable synonym, in that marvellous operations of nature ! language, for a postage stamp— a luxury non­ The valuable services rendered to history by existent in the classic ages. The derivation is a well accredited series of medals, strictly so rather far-fetched, postage stamps being exempt called, is too universally acknowledged to need from taxation only after being purchased and eulogy. IIow many a doubted occurrence, how paid for. W c ourselves should have preferred many an otherwise forgotten circumstance, how philotyp as a nearer equivalent and equally many a nice but disputed point in more or less correct ; or even the literal translation of the distant periods, is rendered clear as the sun at term generally employed in Franee timlrophilly, noon by the testimony of commemorative medals! though such a word, being a dual compound, is THE ARCHÆOLOGIST. 11

considered inadmissible in literature. A German Edward II.; and with edwardus in full to compound is easily obtainable ; and the Germans Edward III. Allowing this explanation to be deserved the compliment, being among the correct, we possess coins of both Edward I. and earlier, if not the earliest postage stamp collectors ; II., which are distinguished by villkyngeston on bnt we question whether such long-winded, the reverse. (Engravings of Hull pennies are to crack-jaw words as poststampelsammler or be found in Frost’s “ Notices,” and in Ending.) postmarkenliebhabcr would ever fall into genera^ No pennies of Hull are know which can be vogue.— Adapted fo r “ The Archceologist ” by the appropriated to Edward III. or any later Author. monarchs, and though Edward III. established an Exchange here in 1335, there seems no doubt COINS RELATING TO HULL. that after Edward II., the mint ceased to be worked. m ilE town of Kingston-upon-IIull, though of W . F. J. considerable importance at the present time, was a place of Httle note "(if indeed anything ROMAN COINS; more than a few fishermen’s huts existed) previous By W. H. Taylor. to the reign of King Edward 1. Hence we do “ The face of an old Roman coin, scarce seen." not find coins o f the earlier kings of England Love's Labour's Lost. which have been struck here ; as we do of so many other towns, which are now much the Chapter V.— Consular Coins. inferiors of Hull, in point of size, but which ( Continued.) were then of some importance. Means of communication between different ACCOLEIA, parts of the country being few and far between, mint3 were anciently established in nearly every P. accoleivs, lariscolvs. Female Head. town of any importance, and as the revenues Jiev.—-Three females standing, their heads which accrued to the king from them were terminating in branches of (larch) trees. considerable, it was the royal interest to have as This curious coin refers to the old legend of many as possible. Phaeton, struck by the bolts of Jupiter for his In the year 1300, Edward I. (who gave the unskilful driving of the chariot of the sun; and town its first charter) gave orders for the building his three sisters, inconsolable for his loss, were of houses, and sending from beyond the seas changed into trees. The family of Accoleia is for workmen for the mint, which was to contain unknown in history; but, perhaps, as the member four furnaces ; and in the same year an Exchange of it alluded to on this coin is called Lariscolus, was placed here. some of his ancestors added to the important duty A ll numismatists are aware of the difficulty of succeeding to their father’s the additional one which exists in distinguishing the coins of the of cultivating larch trees, for profit and amuse­ three Edwards, owing to the absence of any ment- numeral on them to denote the particular monarch CffiCILIA. by which they were struck. The generally Head of P iety; before it a stork. received opinion is, that those with edw. belong Jiev.— q. c. m. p. i.— i.e. Quintus Coecilus to Edward I.; with edwar and edward to Metellus Pius Imperator. An elephant. 12 THE ARCHÆOLOGIST. Two events in Roman history arc here recorded. of the senate, C. P. Piso, and C. S. Csepio, were The first allusion is to the rescue of the Palladium sent into other countries to buy com. This by Metellus, on the occasion of a fire in the temple mission was so well performed that the Calpurnian of Vesta; and the other, commemorated by the family were allowed to record the event on their elephant, to the great victory obtained by Me­ coins. tellus in the first Punic war, when 120 elephants CORNELIA. were captured and sent, together with thirteen favsta. Head of Diana; behind, the litnns. Rev.— Fel ix . A male figure clad in the general, “ to grace in captive bonds his chariot toga, seated: below, two figures kneeling, wheels,” to Rome. one presenting a branch, the other with his CASSIA. hands tied behind his back. q, cassivs. vest. Veiled head of Vesta. This coin represents the submission of Bacchus, Rev.— The circular temple of Vesta, within it a curule chain, on one side of which is King of Goetulia, to Sylla (who adopted the name urn; on the other a tablet with the letters Felix), and the surrendering of the king’s son- A. C. in-law, Jugurtha. This coin refers to Q. Cassius, one of the pre To be continued. decessors of Lucius Cassiu», and notorious for his severity as a judge; and the circumstance |?0}MÏiu* J u it iq u if e . depicted on the reverse is one frequently occuring Edited by WILLIAM ANDREWS. in Roman history. Two Vestals v/ere tried by

him for breaking their vows, and condemned to In. this part of “ The A rckeeologist ” it is our desire to death. The a . c. refers to a law passed by him, furnish Original Articles on Manners, Customs, and Literary, Political, and Social Life of the which declared the citizans were to give their Olden Time, Obsolete Lares, Forgotten Literature votes by means of small tablets instead of verbally. Folk Lore, Legends, Traditions, Ifc. A. stands for “ Absolvo,” and C. for “ Condemno.” We most respectfully solicit Contributions on the sub­ jects named, and on kindred matters. A ll articles CAR! SI A. to be written on.one side o f the paper only, and moneta. Head of Juno. addressed to the Editor, Mr. William Andrews,

Rev.— T. carisivs, with anvil, a pair of pincers, hammer, &c., &c. C utting P urses for undue Casting of “ Moneta,” was a Roman name for Juno, B allast.— There was anciently a very remark­ who was so called because she delared that, so able custom for the preservation of the River long as they (the Romans) carried on just wars, Tyne from being injured by the casting of they would never want money. ballast in an improper depth of water at sea. The various instruments depicted on the re­ Such masters of ships as were convicted of verse, are those used in the coinage having done so, were sentenced to pay down live CALPURNI A, pounds, which being put into a purse, the purse piso. Caepio. q. A bearded head crowned was cut by the offender, which act was intended with laurel: below, a trident. to be expressive of his having done an act as Rev.— ad. fkv. e.mv. e x . s. c. Tw o figures injurious to society, or as scandalous to himself, in togas, seated between two ears of corn. as that of cutting a purse from the girdle of an In the year A. C. 507, a failure in the harvest indifferent person. We have between 164G and caused great scarcity in Rome, when by a decree 1652, a testimonial of John Philips’s, and THE ARCHAEOLOGIST. 13

William Goodwin’s cutting each a purse in the by Philips and Goodwin. One of the old cut town’s chamber, for casting of ballast in the purses is now in the poseasion of the Society of River Tyne. Whereas information upon oath Antiquaries, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. We have was given, that John Philips, master of the Mary, drawn the above curious information from a of Hull, and William Goodwin, master of the scarce work, of which only 150 copies were Elizabeth, of Wisebidge, did on the 5th of this printed, entitled “ The Conservatorship of the instant, cast ballast within fourteen fathom deep, River Tyne,” Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1849. betwixt Souter and Hartley, to the damage of the Churchwardens’ A ccounts.—-The oldaccounts river. The said persons being called before us, of churchwardens contain much curious and *he mayor, alderman, and chamberlains, with interesting information. As an example we have the master of the Trinity House, who was then only to give the following verbatim copy of the present in the town-chamber, and did there churchwardens’ account fortheparish of Pleasley, acknowledge and confess the said offence, and did Derbyshire, in the year 1718 : lay down £5 a piece, which was put into tw° s. d. For Spring Visitation...... 1 6 pur3e3, which they did cut, according to ancient G iven they Ringers 29th of May ...... 2 0 custom of this corporation in such cases, &c. W e Given they Ringers at ye Peace pro­ are enabled to give the order of this court at claiming...... 2 0 For going to Mickmass Visitation ...... 1 15 Whitehall, of Friday, 14th Feb., 1616, a copy For Court charges and a book ...... 4 8 of which used to hang in the chamber—■“ Where­ For three New Bell Ropes...... 7 0 as there hath been an ancient custom in New­ For the 5th o f November ...... 3 0 For wnshingof the Snrpl ice and scouring castle, that every master of any ship who was the church pewter and plate...... 1 9 known to cast any ballast between the places For Bread and Wine for Xmas...... 4 1 called Soutor and Hartley, or within fourteen For ringing at Xmas ...... 1 0 For Ringing at New-years Bay ...... 1 0 fathoms of the haven, to the hurt of the haven, For a pound o f candles and oil...... 9 was brought into the town chamber, and in the For Richard Mower mending the church presence of the people, had a knife put into his gates ...... 1 6 For Nails ...... 2 hand, and was constrained to cut a purse with For Bread and Wine for Pnlme Sundry money in’t, as who should say had offended and Easter day...... 9 9 against the river in as high a degree as if he had For poles and neals for the yew tree and for fower bords for the steeple cut a purse from the person of a man, whereby chamber and neales...... 2 0 he might be so ashamed, that he should never For washing ye surplice and church leynen at Easter ...... 1 0 offend again therein, and others by his example Going to ye Bishop’s Visitation and were terrified from trespassing in the like kind : paying ye parsons charges...... 5 (! that now in the time of general wrong done to For ye court fees and a bookc ...... C 8 Looking to bell claper...... 3 0 the river, and the great number of shipping Ringing 29th May ...... 2 0 which cometh into the haven, this ancient custom For a copy of ye register ...... 3 0 Given to a man and wom an...... 4 be renewed, and put into due execution. This Given to another...... 2 mode of punishment for casting ballast improperly For three times going for wyne ...... G is complained of as oppressive, by Gardner in his 3 G 4 grievance, and Hornby tells us that in his time there was two cut purses hanging upon an iron A C urious E pitaph.— In the parish church rod in the town’s chamber, probably those cut of Wakefield, the following epitaph is placed to 14 THE ARCHAEOLOGIST. the memory of Henry Clemtshaw, upwards of 30 cents, per dozen for 1 cent. Nicaraguans. This fifty years organist of that church, who died May admission was fatal; it being unlikely that any 7th, 1821, aged 68 years. one would give 30 cents, to cheat the government Now like an organ robb'd of pipes and breatb, of Nicaragua out of 12 cents.! Its keys and stops all useless made by death, Egypt was then taken up, and the judge Tho’ mute and motionless in ruins laid, But when rebuilt by more than mortal aid, decided that the stamps of that country bore This instrument, new voiced and tune shall raise certain hieroglyphical characters which neither To God, its builder, hymns of endless praise. the jury nor himself could read ; consequently were unable to decide whether they were forged PHILATELIC GOSSIP. or not. British Guiana forgeries were next CJOME archeologist of the future, rummaging brought forward. In this case the judge pro­ ^ amongst old publications, may chance to nounced the government of that place, it being fall upon the present number of this magazine, a colony, not to be recognizable in that court, and be amused at several phases of this article, any more than it would recognize the county which exhibit tho strange ideas of polity, equity, officer of an English county, or the mayor or geography, and probity entertained in the United alderman or governor (whoever he may be) of States of America. Lon don ! Our philatelic readers must, many of them, The attorney for the prosecution next tried have been victimised by one of the unprincipled tho Angola stamps; but here the judge swindlers who have been vending counterfeits confessed his ignorance of the existence of such almost ever since the commencement of postage a place ; and that Angola and its stamps must be stamp collecting. It is a pity some individual proved to exist before he could allow it to go on of public spirit does not institute proceedings record. The prosecuting council could bring against some of the fraternity; but, unless forward no witnesses to prove of their own managed better than across the Atlantic, more knowledge anything about it; and no mere harm than good might arise. hearsay testimony or evidence from books was W e have the full account before us, larded allowable in a criminal court! The Portuguese with the accustomed (apparently) needless, government might havebeen communicated with; and absurd legal phraseology, which must be as but documentary evidence was inadmissible, and much condensed as possible. A certain Italian as Patroni had pleaded, no adjournment could be named Patroni, and others, were arrested las*' had without his consent. autumn in Philadelphia for forging and selling St. Thomas and Prince Island fell under the counterfeits. They were trading under various same category ; and even had the existence of names, and most probably making a very good the stamps in question been proved, the preceding profit. Materials for printing, &c., and a large places being colonies of Portugal, they, like British number of falsities, were found at their several Guiana, had no recognizable government! places of abode. A witness for the defence testified unblushingly Unfortunately they were indicted for an that he kept counterfeits, and had done so for attempt to defraud the several governments of thirteen years ; that he had made them himself ; Egypt, Nicaragua, &c., instead of the real object, that the sale of such was common ; that he made viz., defrauding unwary collectors. The first his living by i t ; and that he had bought many witness, on cross examination, owned to giving from the accused ! THE ARCHAEOLOGIST. 15

Notwithstanding all this, the jury returned a thoress betrays lack of historical and archaeological verdict of guilty, with a recommendation to knowledge, and bathes in anachronisms. mercy. The judge declined to pronounce Mr. Swinburne’s “ Erecktheus” is undoubtedly sentence, being satisfied of the absence of any his best and greatest poem. It is said that the criminal intent to defraud the government of author has formally embraced Christianity, but Nicaragua— (no one ever supposed there was)—• we swallow the nev's with plenty of salt. and the prisoners were dismissed. The judge, The London Magazine for January keeps its however, added that he approved of the verdict early promise of being a good sixpenny-worth. for this reason— that if this man had been “ W hat the Castalia brought ” is the only weak acquitted, criminal forgers might make the thing it contains; and Austin Dobson’s pretty stamps of England, France, and Germany— (we poetic dialogue is exceedingly quaint and fanciful. presume the U. S. judges condescend to admit On dit that Mr. Sampson, late city editor of the existence of those three countries)— and call the Times, now writes the money article in the them specimens, citing the result of the present Echo. trial as a precedent. A new comic paper entitled Wit has made its The individual to whom we are indebted for an appearance. Alfred Bryan is the cartoonist, and account of these singular proceedings, caps it all very clever some of Lis productions are. by the remark that Mr. Patroni is a very Joseph Hatton’s dramatised version of “ Clyde’ gentlemanly person ! Swindlers generally come has been very variously received by the critics. under that description. We think it sensational to an improbable extent, and uniformly uninteresting. LITERARY NEWS. Dion Boucicault, actor, dramatist, and mana­ Not ice.— A ll com mvnications, boolis.pamph lets, Sfc., ger, has advertised the Shaughraun rather late in intended fo r notice in this department, should be the day. It is not true that Mr. Tennyson in­ addressed “ Literary Editor, Archaeologist Office, 20, Paternoster Row, E. CP tends to herald the appearance of “ Queen M ary” by a letter to Mr. Disraeli on “ No Popery, and T1ITE highly recommend the various periodicals the ennobling of Mr. Ncwdegate.” ' ’ published by Mr. James Henderson, of It is whispered that the Premier has a novel Red Lion Court, Fleet-street. Funny Folks nearly ready for the press. When did he find needs no word of praise from us when we say tíme to write it ? that its list o f artistic contributors includes such men as John Proctor, Montbard, Brown (the son gtotfsí, (guwiw, nwl of the immortal “ Phiz ” ) and others ; and that

the literary staff is effectively composed of such T raders’ T okens,— The following notes have comic luminaries as William Sawyer, the editor, been sent to us by a friend :— “ Much important Dr. Carpenter. Dutton Croker, Tom Archer, W. county information— topographical, genealogical, L. Clowes, “ the London Hermit,” and half-a- and otherwise— is to be gained from the careful score more. examination o f the Traders’ Tokens of the The first portion of a poem called “ The Token different localities within its boundaries, and to of the Silver Lily ” appears in the January num­ these, so far as regards Staffordshire, we purpose ber o f the Gentleman’s. The style is Tennysonian, to draw attention. They are curious and insig­ and the verse flowing and pretty ; but the au­ nificant looking objects, not important enough 16 THE ARCHAEOLOGIST.

(because not issued by the State) to be dignified 1787 no private tokens were issued, but in the by the name of “ coins,” but still presenting latter year, owing to the scarcity of copper coinage, features worthy of careful notice, and which the Anglesey Copper Company commenced the neither coin or medal possesses. Issued by issue of tokens— honest tokens in weight and towns, or by private individuals, they are simply quality— by putting into circulation no less than called “ tokens” because they denoted, and were three hundred tons of pennies and half-pence. passed among the people as “ tokens” or pledges This gave the hint to others, and tokens soon of, a certain money value. They were in fact again became general throughout the kingdom, metallic promissory notes for halfpence, pence, In 1802 they again ceased, but became common or farthings, or other value, as the case might be. again in 1811. In 1817 they were finally They were issued by the people and therefore suppressed by Act of Parliament, and since that spoke only of the people, and of their occupations, time none have been issued.” habits, customs, trades, and places of abode, and Q uery.— How can the coins of the three Con­ thus give much information of a widely different stantines, and of Constatius J. and IT., be distin­ character from what can be obtained from any guished, especially in the small brass?— W. G., other source. Without going into the question of Tuxford. the history of tokens, about which much has Q uery.—T iie W olves’ Cluu.— In Macready's already been written, it will be well briefly to Reminicences,recently published, several references state that even in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, are made to this club, which be says was formed owing to the great scarcity of “ small change,” by a number of the admirers of his great rival the ale-house keepers, chandlers, grocers, mercers, Kean, with the object of intimidating any actor vintners, and other traders found themselves from playing in his (Kean’s) parts in London. under the necessity of issuing private tokens of Can any reader of the Archaeologist give me lead, pewter, tin, latten, and even leather, and any information about this strange club, its these, when returned to the issuers in numbers, whereabouts, rules, constitution, &c., &e,, if it were bought Lack with regular coins; and com­ did really ever exist, or whether it was but a modities would only be bad for them from myth after all ?•—-W . II. T.

their issuers. Royal proclamations were issued Q uery. —Seeing a notice in December’s A r­ prohibiting their use, but were issued in vain. chaeologist respecting a fresh supply of our bronze In 1001 and 1G02 copper tokens were issued coinage, perhaps I may be able to glean from the by the cities of Oxford, Bristol, and W or­ same source a reply to the following. About 12 cester, and these were soon followed by months ago I took in ordinary change a penny of similar tokens struck by, or for, other towns, and 1868, underneath the date of which is the figure 3, the coin not being a very good one. I looked private individuals, and circulated by them. out for another, but from that time to this have Despite the attempts of James the First by the failed to meet with one, good or bad, with this issue of State tokens (of which we may yet take peculiarity. On comparing the coin with those without the numeral, of that year, I find that it occasion to give some particulars) and proclama­ is much superior in execution. It lias been, for tions, the number increased. In 1671 they had some years past, customary to number the dies increased to such a prodigious extent, that of the gold and silver coinage, but this is the first and only instance I have met with it on the the Government issued national farthings, and in bronze. If Messrs. Ileaton, of Birmingham, or the following years stringent measures were taken any of your readers, can give me any information to suppress the private tokens. From 1672 until on the subject, I shall be obliged.— H. Christie. THE HERBERT HAWLEY, D ealer in WORKS OF ART. PICTURES, CHINA, pgtmemer §rkfmarkcn ^njrigtr. COINS, CURIOSITIES, MINERALS, BOOKS, Ac. 21, Lamb’s Conduit Street, Holborn, W.C., SEMI-MONTHLY Journal, devoted only Offers from his extensive Stock the following : to Stamp Collecting. Appears since 1871, A VERY handsome Antique GOLD WATCH, having theA 1st and 15th of every month. No. 96 now fine blue Enamel Cases, set with large diamonds, ready. Annual subscription abroad (24 copies) recently fitted with a first-class lever movement, £28. A very powerful MICROSCOPE, fitted with all Post Free, 4s. Single copies 2£d. accessories, in a mahogany cabinet, by Smith, £19. T h e E ditor, Nearly 5000 VOLUMES OF INTERESTING Hamburg (Germany). NOVELS, from a London lending library, to be sold in one lot, or to suit purchasers, very suitable for a WELL MIXED FOREIGN STAMPS, village library. The highest London prices remitted fo r Old Gold l U U v p0sfc free Is. 3d.; superior ditto 2s. 7d and Silver. List of stamps, packets, sets, albums, now ready post Wholesale Agent for The Archaeologist.______free l£d. Agents wanted.—J. D. R ussell, 92, Strat- ford-road, Sparkbrook, Birmingham. J~ B. MOENS, 7 , G-alerie B ortier, B russels, J. HENRY, Buys and sells all kinds of Stamps.

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the fact, as told by Livy, of Tullus Ilostilius at ROMAN COINS; his battle with the Veientes, vowing temples to By W. H, Taylor. the gods, Pallor and Pavor, should he be vic­ torious, in much the same way that superstitious “ The face of an old Roman coin, scarce seen.” sailors in a storm do, when they promise in­ Love’s Labour's Lott. numerable candles to their patron saints, provided they get them safely out of their difficulties. C hapter VI.—-C onsular Coins. ( Continued.) MAMILIA. Winged head of Mercury.

Rev.— c. m a m i l . l i m e t . A figure of a man HORATIA, walking, and met by a dog. Coci.es. Winged head of Minerva: behind x. This coin represents Ulysses being recognized Rev.—The dioscuri on horseback below, by his dog Argus, after ten years’ absence. roma. (This coin is very rare). The Mamilian family claimed to be descended Codes (Horatiu?) was the famous Roman who from the hero of the Odyssey. defended the bridge against the Tuscans under p l a u t i a . Porsenna. It was ho whom Macaulay has im­ a . p l a y t i v s . a e d . c v r . s.c. Female head, mortalised in his “ Lays of Ancient Rome,” where with turreted crown. he speaks of Horatius, the “ Captain of the Gate,” Rev.— r a c c h iv s iv. d a e v s . A man kneel­ as exclaiming:— ing by a camel, presenting an olive branch. “ To every man upon this earth This represents the submission of Baccbius, Death cometh soon or late, And how can man die better one of the allies of Aretas, King of Arabia, to Than facing fearful odds, his conqueror A . Plautius, For the ashes of his fathers, p a p i a . And the temples of his Gods.” t r i v m f v s . Youthful laurcated head ; behind, HOSTILIA. a trophy.

Head of Pavor; behind a shield, with the Rev.— L. l’APIVS c e l s u s m . v i r . A wolf device of a thunderbolt. carrying a log to a fire, which an eagle fans Rev.— A figure in a toga, defending himself with its wings. from the attack of a pursuer. This coin illustrates, on its reverse, one of the This, and similar coins of the family, refer to numerous fables in the history of Italy, to the IS THE ARCHAEOLOGIST. effect that •when AEneaa was about to found LITERARY NOTES. Lavinium, he saw a wolf and an eagle attempting to light a fire, which a fox was endeavouring to HE annual by the authors of “ The Coming extinguish. It was foretold from this that the K ------” is this year entitled “ Edward V II.” infant colony, though at first harassed and The book is not altogeter devoid of wit, nor is it thwarted by neighbouring states, would finally at all below the usual level of similar publications; subdue them, but no loyal subject can read it with pleasure, POMPONIA. and the coarse and unwarrantable attacks upon hercvles mvsarvm. Hercules playing on public characters which it contains are more a lyre. calculated to inspire contempt for the writers Rev.— q. pomponi. mvs.-e : one of the nine tlxin for the victims. Messrs. Evelyn Jerrold, Muses, accompanied by the usual emblems. son of the well-known Editor of Lloyd's, and A. Hercules is hero referred to as Musarum, or A. Dowty, better known as O. P. Q. Philander Musageta, *. e. the “ leader of the Muses; ” that Smiff, are said to be the authors. being one of his titles both in Greece and after­ The series of poems, entitled “ Songs of Two wards at Rome. Quintus Pomponius Musa Worlds,” which has appeared from time to time doubtless chose the type of one of the Muses as during the last few years, is, we believe, written a punning reference to his own surname. by Mr. Lewis Lewis. POSTUMIA. A weekly column headed “ Variorum Notes ” Head of Apollo: behind, a star; below, is a new and acceptable feature in the Examiner. roma. before x. Moy Thomas, the dramatic critic of the Daily Rev.— albinvs s. f . Tw o figures standing News and the Graphic, is now writing for the by a fountain, at which their horses aro Academy. drinking. A n old Roman legend states that, at the great SONNET. • battle of the Lake Regillus, the twin gods, Castor A maid went forth into a world-wide wood To choose a flower through life to he her guide. and Pollux, appeared and fought for Rome, and White roses in the thicket she espied, afterwards entered the city, and— And lilies tall that nodded where they stood : But, though the blossoms seemed so fair and good, “ When they drew nigh to Vesta Each one was full of thorns or full of pride, They vaulted down amain, And each perforce confessed that it had lied And washed their horses in the well And was no emblem of true woman-hood. That springs by Vesta’s fane. And so the maiden turned to leave the place And straight again they mounted In sorrow at her fruitless search, when, Lo 1 And rode to Vesta’s door; A leaf of Ivy brushed against her face Then, like a blast, away they passed, As if to dry her tears and soothe her woe. And no man saw them more.” “ Sweet Ivy “ said the maiden, “ I will be Lays of Ancient Home. “ A loving, gentle copier of thee.”

( To be continued.) W. L a ik d -Clowes.

W e hear that the authoress of “ Coinin’ thro* the E rrata. Rye,” and of “ The Token of the Silver Lily,’’ On page 11, for Cmcilus, read Ccecilius. will be married shortly. Hence it happens that „ 12, (Column 1), for curule chain, read at present she writes anonymously. curule chair. L eh- te. THE ARCHAEOLOGIST. 19

JOTTINGS ON HARMONY. one being uneven with the other cuts it, and the mixture of the two produces discord. The CONCORD and harmony in the mind produce breaking of each wave produces successions of (' peaceful satisfaction. This pleasure is felt silence, and the stream assumes a succession of the moment a hall Is filled with music, and if broken throbs. This may be noticed if two the audience is not distracted by external or adjacent keys of a harmonium arc held down. internal discord, their minds may be entertained Such a discord leaves an unpleasant feeling if it for two or three hours by a succession of har­ is the last note of a tunc, as in such case the ear monious pleasures, as much as they could by any continues to be struck with a shower of discord ; other mental recreation. The reason would but it. is often useful before the note, a3 its seem to be that music brings one department discord makes the next chord more welcome, and of nature to a harmonious concord, and where the the tiansition from discord to harmony doubly concord of nature is unbroken, natural pleasure sweetens the pleasure of the chord, just as after ensues. The disturbance of air produces sound; pain there is pleasure in relief. but when it is disturbed at uneven intervals, the The string of the instrument when struck disturbance only produces noise, not tone. If the continues to strike backward and forward, cutting impulses are equal, tono is produced. The the air like a whip, until it is stopped or its striking of the string of a harp cuts the air in a motion dies out, and thus the sound is continued. rapid succession of shocks, each of which is at It is necessary to stop the flow before striking an exact distance of time from the other, and auother tone, if the latter throws off. a quantity each shock flows through the air, following close of waves that are not even in number to i t ; upon its predecessor as ripples on troubled water; Otherwise, as before stated, the waves will cross the exact repetition of the shock parts the air by and produce discord. Any number of waves its force, and the vacuum is immediately and may be thrown out at one time, provided each is violently filled by the atmosphere (which abhors consistent in its order of multiplication ; and so a vacuum). Each blow of the atmosphere in a Hill chorus of different toucs may be emitted entering strikes the surrounding wall of air and so long as there be not one throwing 3 strokes throws out waves which strike the ear and while another is throwing 4. Thus music is produce a sound. A succession of such shocks really a principle of equality ; and produces the too rapidly repeated to allow the perception to peaceful satisfaction of concord in the mind. If distinguish them, produce one continued stream nature were not marred by inequalities, it would of sound, and if each wave is equal with the be one flow of the same pleasurable sensations other the continued sound assumes an equal to the senses as music produces to the ear. Thus tone. The slower the pulsation the lower will light enters the eye in the same waves of equality, be the tone, thus an octave higher is produced and unequal waves produce darkness by being by so tightening the strings as to cause it to broken. The equal multiplication of figures by double the number of shocks in a second ; and which time and distance and quantity are ascer­ by multiplying the shocks in equal degrees into tained, produce natural satisfaction in their even numbers of strokes, tones are produced results, but if they do not harmonize no such which if thrown out at once produce a chord. satisfaction can ensue. Thus while twice ten If two tones thrown out at once bo unequal in must make 20, it cannot make 21 ; and five and the number of their pulsations, the wave of the three are eight, but the same number cannot be 20 TIIE ARCHAEOLOGIST. arrived at by five and two. In a world of natural Whether went they ? On the morrow they principles of unbroken and harmonious concord, were missing; and where there is no sin to bring in death and “ The snow did melt, the winter fled, discord, the intelligence will be constantly Before the gladsome spring, And flowers did bud, the cuckoo piped, supplied with the pleasure of peaceful satisfaction ; And merry birds did sing. there will be music in the soul ; and heaven “ And spring danced by, and crowned withbougbs, will be one flood of pleasure in the variety and Came lusty summer on : harmonious joy of its concordant principles of And the bells ling out, for 'tis the eve, The eve of the blessed St. John. flowing beauty. W e may foretaste heaven then “ But where bide they, the sisters twain ? by cultivating equality of temper,and fair dealing Have the holy sisters fled 1 here; and eschewing all violation of nature’s And the abbess and all her nuns bewail'd laws— all jarring discords, and by the natural The sisters twain for dead. and even conduct of our lives, producing music “ Then go they forth in the eventide, In the cool and dusky hour ; in our souls, we may borrow the concordant And the abbess goes up the stair of stone waves of music from the perfect world of con­ High on the belfry tower. cordant principles, and carry heaven in our “ Now Christ thee save ! thou sweet layde, For on the roof-tree there, hearts. Like as in blessed trance y-rapt, She sees the sisters fair. “ Whence came ye, daughters ? long astray : tojnto Antiquities. 'Tis but au hour, they tell, Since we did chant the vesper hymn E d i t e d b y WILLIAM ANDREWS. And list the vesper bell. “ Nay, daughters, nay I ’tis months agone : T he Sistehs’ T omb.— Tradition assigns to St. Sweet mother, an hour we ween ; But we have been in heaven each one, John of Beverley, wonderful curative powers, And holy angels seen.” and that he had only to send a cruse of water A miracle ! tlic rhymer cries; and he goes on in which he had dipped his finger, to a sick person to relate how the nuns repair to the chapel and to effect a cure. When the wife of Earl Puch, chant a hymn of praise, after which the two who lived at Bishop Burton, was sick application sisters, kneeling, entreat the abbess for her was made for holy water which she drank, and blessing, and no sooner has she pronounced was forthwith restored from a grievous sickness. fade in pace, then drooping like two fair Her two daughters were so overawed by the lilies, two pale corses sink to the floor. After miracle that they entered the nunnery at Beverley, this the bells break into a chime wondrously where they won a reputation for holiness and sweet, rung by no earthly hand ; and when the good works. They gave the two pastures on sisters are laid in the tomb they suffer no decay. which the freemen of the town still graze their Years passed away, and still no change came over cattle. The rest of their story is told in an those lovely forms and angelic features : olden ballad. W e are told by the rhymer it was Christmas-evc, the customary service had “ And pilgrims came from all the land, And eke from over-sea, been performed in the chape], the abbess and To pray at the shrine of the sisters twain, her nuns slowly retired to pursue their devotions And St. John of Beverley.” apart in their cells, all save two, who lingered The tomb is of earlier date than the famous and went forth hand in hand after the others. Percy shrine, and, though less rich, is not less THE ARCHEOLOGIST. 21 chaste and elegant. It is an altar-tomb, covered They off to Harrogate, or Woodhouse Moor. The one his villa and a carriage keeps ; with a ponderous slab of Purbeck marble, and His squalid brother in a garret sleeps, placed under a beautiful canopy There is no High flaunting forest trees, Iok crouching weeds, inscription, or indeed any other due, to lead to Can this be Manchester ? or is it Leeds.” a knowledge of the person or persons to whose E nglish M anners in the Good Old T imes.— memory it was erected, but tradition says it Charles II. supped with Cosmo the evening before marks the resting place of the two sisters. the Grand Duke's departure. i( To the service

A T remendous B owl of P unch. — In the of fruit succeeded a most excellent course of Gentleman's Magazine, it is stated, on the 25th confectionery, both those of Portugal and other of October, 1694, a bowl of punch was made at countries famous for the choiceness of their the Right Hon. Edward Russell’s house when he sweetmeats. But scaicely was it set upon the was Captain-General Commandcr-in-Chief of his table, when the whole was carried off and Majesty’s forces in the Mediterranean Sea. It plundered by the people who came to see the was made in a fountain in a garden in the spectacle of the entertainment; nor was the middle of four walks, all covered overhead with presence of the king sufficient to restrain them orange and lemon trees; and in every walk was from the piliage of those very delicate viands, a table the whole legth of it, covered with cold much less his majesty’s soldiers, armed with collations, &c. In the said fountain were tho carbines, who guarded the entrance of the saloon following ingredients, namely :— to prevent all ingress into the insides, lest the confinement and too great heat should prove 4 Hogsheads of Brandy. 25,000 lemons. annoying, so that his majesty, to avoid the crowd, 20 gallons lime juice. was obliged to rise from table and retire to his 1,300 cwt. of fine white Lisbon sugar. Iliglmess’s apartment.”— Harl, Miac. V ol. vii. p. 5 lbs. grated nutmegs. 300 toasted biscuits. 378. One pipe of dry mountasn Malaga. Over the fountain was a large canopy to keep off PHILATELIC GOSSIP. the rain; and there was built on purpose a little boat, wherein was a little boy belonging to the O new emissions having been chronicled fleet, who rowed round the fountain and filled last month, the space allotted to philately the cups of the company; and in all probability, N must he devoted to them. Many novelties call more than 6,000 men drank thereof. for notice; notably the handsome set of Telegraph A Y orkshire E pigram. — The following Stamps, issued on the 1st ultimo, for home use. epigram is extracted from the fly leaf of an old Great Britain.— Transverse rectangle: Queen’s hook. head to the left, enframed variously; inscribed

“ The A ire below is doubly dyed and damned ; above, telegraphs; below, value in w ords: plate- The air above, with lurid smoke is crammed ; letters at the lower angles; plate-numerals at the The one flows streaming foul as Charon’s Styx, Its poisonous vapours in the other mix. upper in the three higher values; in the frame, The sable twins the murky town invest,— right and left, in the lowest. Engraved in colour By them the skin’s begrimed, the lungs oppressed. How dear the penalty thus paid for health ; on white, and perforated. Carmine-pink, 5 Obtained through wasted life and broken health : shillings. Light-green, 1 shilling. Carmine­ The joyful Sabbath comes ! that blessed day, pink, 3 pence. Light-brown, I penny. The When all seem happy, and all seem gay : Then toil has ceased, and then both rich and poor, highest value is much larger than the others, and 22 THE ARCHEOLOGIST. is watermarked with a Maltese cross; the shilling impressed in colour on white paper, perforated, and sixpenny bear a rose ; and the other has a and watermarked with C. C. and crown, trefoil. In addition to these is a new telegraph Jivssian Locals.— Continued additions to these form on paper with elaborate directions on both now acknowledged genuine emissions are being sides. An impressed stamp graces the right- made. The type of Ananiev has been modified, hand upper corner. It is circular; on a colored the inscription having been altered. In other ground, showing the Queen’s head in white relief: respects as before. Blue, 5 kopecks. The new inscribed like the adhesives, the letters are on envelope type has been adopted for the adhesives engine-turned ornamentation. Pea-green, 1 shilling also of Bonnitzi. Perfect kazan envelopes have Bavaria.— A complete set of stamps for this cropped up. The hideous Malvarcliangcl first kingdom was issued on New Year’s Day. The emission has a worthier successor. The Perm type is similar to that last issued; but the krettzer stamps are slightly altered, also those of Iloxtov value is abolished, and the pfennige established. on Don. There is a new emission for Tiraspol, Adhesive—Yellowish-green, 3 ]>f. ; Carmine, for official purposes, and the long disused en­ 10 pf.; Ultramarine, 20 pf. ; lied, 50 pf.: velopes of Voltschanok are now seen in collections. Orange, 2 marks. Pour unpaid letters— Grey, Wo fancy they are reprints. 3 pf., 5 pf., 10 pf. Post-cards— Yellowish-green, Persia.— A postal arrangement having been 3 pf. Blue-green; 5 pf. on Duff. The latter entered into with this country and Russia, its value is doubled on grey cards for communication stamps arc likely to become general in collections. and reply. Wrapper— Yellowish-green on blue It is singular that Persia, whose posts are the laid paper, 3 pf. Envelope— Carmine on the first noted in history, so long since as in the reign same, 10 pf. of Cyrus, should be tlie last place to adopt the Canada.— A trio of elegantly engraved regis­ modern system. tration stamps 1ms been issued for this colony. Portugal.— The colour of the current 25 reis The}' are oblong; bear name, designation, and is much darker than when first emitted. There value in white letters on colored ground work ; have been two high values issued for single and Vermilion, 2 cents., Green, 5 c , Blue, 8 c. double postage between that country and Brazil; Anttoquia.— Another set for this component type as before. Azure, 150 rcis; Lilac-mauve, of the Colombian States has entered appearance. 300 rcis. There are four values of as many different types, St. Vincent.— The shilling adhesive of this rectangular and imperforate. Name, value, &c., island is now dark claret colour: and the sixpenny disposed after the accustomed style of the country, dark green. 1 centavo, black impression on green glazed New South Wales,— The large square sixpenny paper; same Btyle of type, blue on white, 2J c. was superseded by a smaller rectangular stamp Head of liberty in circle, flanked by numerals; some years since, and at last its companion name above, value beneath. An exceedingly shilling has retired into private life ; in other ugly stamp; green, 5 c. Portrait of some worthy words will do public duty no longer, but be on oval ground, name above, value beneath. relegated to grace collectors’ albums. Like the Lilac, 10 c. current sixpenny, the new shilling is from Messrs. Jamaica.— Two high value of the De La Rue Do La Rue’s atelier, which the merest glance pattern have come out. lled-brown, 2 shillings, will prove. Light bluish green, 1 shilling. Post­ Lilac, 5 shillings. They are both broad rectangles, cards have also been lately issued for this colony. THE ARCHAEOLOGIST. 23

Victoria — An improved edition of the penny Constantine I., and his grandsons, have all beardless chins. All the coin that have f l . of this colony supersedes that lately current. v a l , constantivs are his, and thus they differ The Queen’s head does not fill so much of the from those of his namesakes stamp, and is consequently more effective. II. c o n st a n t in vs [.. rightly called Magnus, also Bright green, 1 penny. Maximus. Magnus is never on his coins, but Boyal Mail Steam Packet Company.— A stamp Max (imus) thus abbreviated, is. He had the same names, Flavius Valerius, as his father, has recently been described and figured in some but they never appeared on his coins, or any magazines, purporting to be used by this company abbreviation of them, but the legends on the o. in the West Indies. The device is a St. Andrew’s are either im p . constantinvs p .f . a v g ., or con st a n t in vs m a x . AVG (ustus) but more often, cross, flag, and crown. Carmine-pink, on white, Co n st a n t in vs Avo. only. The title nob (ilis) 10 cents. Its genuine character remains on ap­ c (aesar) which is often found on his father’s proval for the present. and sons’ coins, does not appear on his. Those with v b b s . r o m a on obv. and with Romulus and Japan.— Newsbands have been issued for this Remus suckled by a wolf on rev. ; also with empire. The impressed stamp is of the peculiar conbtantinopolis on the obv. and a Victory oval shape well-known by the Japanese coins. with spear and buckler on rev., were struck in this reign. From the length of his reign The design is similar to that employed for the {31 years) Ins coins are most numerous; but adhesives and envelopes, being the conventional his gold and silver coins are very rare, and chrysanthemum, garland, and characters. Values fetch high prices. He died, A.D. 337. and colours are, 10 sen. ultramarine; 20 s. rose; III. Flavius Claudius constantinvs ir., had either f . c l . before his surname, or iv n 30 s. bright or dull violet. (Junior) after it. Some of Lis coins have the France.— The long expected new issue yet re­ head to the left, and with a helmet. mains unseen. We understand an accident to IV. Flavius Julius constantivs i i . has the the plate occasions some delay. legend sometimes with dn (Dominus) before Uruguay.—-Postcards for this republic are the surname, and sometimes f l .i v l . an abbre­ viation of his first two names. The head is described, both single and double. Mauve on occasionally to the left, with an orb in the buff or grey, for the former; and on pale-olive, emperor’s hand. ro3e-grey, and deep buff for reply-cards. V. Flavius n e p o t ia n v s Constantinus,* nephew of Constantine I. The coins of this usurper in Italy, were only struck in Rome, arc exceedingly rare, and need not therefore be further noticed.

ROMAN COINS OF THE CONSTANTINE VI. Flavius Claudius constantivs called FAMILY. Gallus (which is not on his coins). They are N answer to the query of W . C., Tuxford, distinguished from those of his namesakes by having an A behind his head, which is always I page 16 ante, “ How can the coins of the to the right, and generally bare. Sometimes 3 Constantines, and Constantius I. and II. be d n . f l . c l . precede this emperor’s name, but distinguished ? ” I would first remark there but more frequently dm. (Dominus) only. There arc some other Roman Emperors whose were 3 Emperors of the latter name, as will bo coins are difficult to distinguish, and we seen hereafter, viz :—■ propose to notice them next month.

I. Flavius Valerius constantivs i . (surnamed II. S. G ill. in history Chlorus, but which never appears * After the Roman Empire was removed to the on his coins). This emperor died at York, East, there wu3 another Constantius 111,, brother- A.D. 30(>. On all his coins his head is to the in-law, and successor to Honorius, who was succeeded by another CONSTANTIVS h i ., but as their third brass right, and laureated. The face has a scrubby coins are never found in England, and are exceedingly beard, and moustache, whilst those of his son, rare, it is not necessary to take them into consideration. 24 THE ARCHAEOLOGIST.

TRADERS' TOKENS. The fact] is, several have been met with dated between the periods mentioned. I have two HILST agreeing in the main with the myself, one of John Me.Culley, Newtown, dated W author of the article in your last No. (pp. 1761, and another very curious one, which, 15, 16) on the above subject, there is one sentence although it bears no date, is evidently of the same period from the antique style of the lettering. in it I cannot understand, where he says, “ to these It reads “ Copperas House, Queenborough,” with Traders’ Tokens] so far as regards Stafford­ the monogram ra.f on one side, and li.K. on the shire, we purpose to draw attention.” But not reverse. I may be able bynsxt month to present one word follows in respect to the said tokens, your readers with the list of a few more.— W. H. T aylor. which no doubt would be disappointing to many W . C., T uxford.— The coins of Constantine of your subscribers in that county, who do not II. are not easily to be distinguished from those possess the excellent standard work on 17th of Constantine I., but those which bear Claudius century tokens by Mr, W, Boyne, F.S.A., &c, are assigned to the son because it is never found on those of the father. Constantine III., the I now proposo to BUpply the omission of your usurper’s coins differ from those of the first two friend or correspondent. emperors of that ilk, in having the legend augggg In Mr. Boyne’s valuable book, which is in­ instead of aug.¡Coins of Constantius I., sumamed Chlorus. and those of Constantius II., arc to be dispensable to every collector of that interesting distinguished by the portraits, which are quite series, he gives a full description of 77 Stafford­ different from each other; in the former case shire tokens, including the octagonal town-piece representing a stout face, large head, and thick neck ; in the lattor, that of a thin and narrow of Lichfield, the only corporation token issued in face.— W . H, T . the county. This is not only very rare, but has a curious legend, which reads thus— (Script in field of token.) (QwetifjS. Obv. TO SVrPLY THF. I’ 00rtE3 NEED — The citty of J ack of H ilton—Particulars of the old litv. is charity indeed, 1670. — Lichfield, Besides the 77 tokens described in Boyne, manorial service, known as “ Jack of Hilton,’ these are nine varieties of the following places, will oblige.— A ntiquary. . which have turned up since it was published in L awless Court.— I shall feel grateful for any 1858, viz :— Bilston, Burntvvood, Burton-on- notes respecting the “ Lawless Court of Essex,” Trent, Leek, Uttoxeter, Walsall, Weduesbury, and if still held, and how carried out — G. W. one each ; and Lichfield, two varieties. On the Smith. other hand there arc two tokens attributed R ush B earing.—Where can I find a good to Smethwick by Boyne (page 407, Nos. 35, 36) account of the ancient custom of Rush Bearing 7— which Mr. R. N. Worth, of Plymouth, has found F. S. A . to belong to “ Smithick,” the old name of Coin.—-What is the country and the date of a Falmouth, Co. Cornwall. coin, in my possession, hearing on one side a If the description of the above would be dolphin naiant embowed ; above a sinister hand acceptable to your readers, the author of this couped at the wrist, holding above the dolphin’s article would send them to you for insertion. head a crown. Inscription— A delphino in Colo- II. S. G il l . nitas. On the otheT side, a female figure, bearing in her sinister hand a cornucopia ; in her dexter T raders’ T okens.— In his notes about hand, a trident. Inscription above: E x Pace “ Traders’ Tokens,” your correspondent has fallen into a common error when he says “ from L isektas, Inscription below: W olf L avf.— 1672 until 1787 no private tokens were issued.” E. T. M axwell W alker. THE W . F. SEEBECK, P O. Box 4926, New Y ork, IT.S. ^llgemcmer ^mfinarheit ¿Ujeiger. 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TYPES OF ANTIQUE GEMS. Catherine of Russia, Josephine, all had large From the Collection of the Rev. R. H. Cave. collections. Even our own bucolic George the Third caught the infection, and paid a heavy rp iIE R E is a department of the fine arts which sum for the not very extensive or excellent has of late years received less than its due cabinet of Consul Smith. A t that time the meed of attention, and yet is well worthy of the Duke of Marlborough too was forming his col­ interest and admiration of those who care lection, which the reader will remember has just for works of art at all; I mean the study of been sold in the lump for thirty-five thousand engraved gems. Perhaps some readers even of guineas, or an average of fifty pounds a piece. the Archceologist— so lost has the art been for In the eighteenth century, five hundred or a the last half century— may be totally un­ thousand guineas was no uncommon price for a acquainted with this branch of the fine arts, and single fine antique engraving. The consequence scarcely know what the words “ engraved gems” of all this was that antique gems began to be mean. If so, we recommend the study to their forged to a very considerable extent. The most consideration as one of the most fascinating barefaced impositions were practised. A paste which educated people can take up; a study or glass casting from an antique engraving was which will repay the time and money spent upon backed by a real stone as a doublet, set in a ring it, will enlarge their mental horizon, and will so as not to show the junction, and sold for a probably again come into vogue when Chelsea heavy sum as a genuine antique. Inferior shepherds and shepherdesses have retired to the engravings were touched up by the clever forgers solitude of their native meads, and Messrs. of the day. The names of ancient engravers of Christie and Manson no longer hold the fashion­ Greece and Rome were cut upon stones which able world entranced over a Sevres tea cup, or had never passed under their hands. Then, of a Dresden plate. course, connoisseurs began to find out how they It is not so long ago either since the collecting had been cheated, and a reaction commenced. of gems was a very fashionable and therefore a There was a panic in the gem market, and prices very expensive pursuit. Throughout the last fell, till the whole business was discredited, and century there was quite a rage for engraved ivally fine antiques became almost valueless. I gems. A dactyliotheca, or cabinet o f gems, was will give only one instance. The Io of Dios- as necessary a thing for a European sovereign corides, a fine Greek gem, which was worth and as a porcelain fabric. Frederick the Great, had been sold for over a thousand pounds in the 26 THE ARCHEOLOGIST. middle of the last century, came under the saith the Lord, though Coniah the son of Jeho- hammer, at Sotheby’s, about the beginning of iakim, king of Judah, were the signet upon my this century, and was knocked down for some right hand, yet would I pluck him thence." seventeen guineas! Signs, however, are not And the story of Polycrates, who flung away his wanting that the tide of popularity is again about ring to propitiate the gods, shows what value to tarn in favour of these little monuments of men put upon their signets in the classical ages. ciasaical art. The sale of the Malborough gems The first seals doubtless were bits of worm- has done something to bring the subject into eaten reed, which were rolled over a piece of public notice; and Mr. King’s books, published moist clay, and so left their impression. The not long since, have opened people’s eyes to the Assyrians enlarging upon this idea formed little mine of beauty which is locked up in antique cylinders of stone, upon which they engraved cabinets, and in various public and private col­ with the diamond point various subjects of their lections. theology or history. These cylinders had a Antique gems are those small seal and ring hole through their axis, and were hung suspended stones which have been used as signets from the from the wrist by a thick woollen cord, stained very earliest historical ages. They are valuable purple or crimson. Assyrian signets usually not only for the worth of the stone itself, and had some sentence engraved upon them in cunei­ these are all of the hardest, and sometimes of the form or wedge-lettering, like those which are to most precious material; but. chiefly on account be seen upon the human-headed bulls in the of the engravings sculptured on them, the works British Museum. And as these inscriptions have of the best artists of the classical ages, when art been deciphered of late years, it has been found was at its best. Just as in the lapt century every that we possess, in the national collection, signets gentleman had his coat of arms cut upon the of various Assyrian, and Babylonian, and Median seal with which he sealed his letters upon w ax; monarchs; amongst others those of Sennacherib so for four thousand years before him the men and Darius. The present writer has in his pos­ of all civilized countries, whether Assyrian, session a cylinder— of which he purposes to give Babylonian, Egyptian, Greek, or Roman, have an engraving hereafter— which was probably a used seals, cut upon precious stones, to mark signet of King Urukh, who lived in Ur of the documents and other property. But instead of Chaldees, about two thousand years before the a coat of arms, the seal engravers of former ages Christian era ; and the subject of which is Baal have engraved upon their gems either portraits and his worship. So much for the antiquarian or images of their gods, or single figures or and historical interest which attaches to these events connected with the history or great epic little engraved gems. poems o f their country; so that a collection of But we will, at any rate, begin our sketch of antique gems brings us at once en rapport with the science of antique gems with types taken questions of historical fact and antiquarian from the classical age. And classical art was at interest, which they serve in some measure to its best for about five hundred years: front elucidate. The signet by which personal property 300 B.C., or say the age of Alexander the Great, has been identified and secured, has from the to about A,D. 200. This includes the best art very earliest ages played no small part in the of Greece and Rome, whether painting, sculpture, world’s history. Its value in the East may be or gem engraving. Now as an instance of the estimated from the Scriptural words, “ As I live, interest attaching itself to the collecting of an- THE ARCHAEOLOGIST. tique gems, I will call the readers attention to a head of Jupiter Triumphalis, by a Parthian

No. 3. Jupiter Serapis, takes us to Egypt, for this is a Romano-Egyptian gem, of the first or second century, and represents him as the Lord o f the lower world. He is borne up by the Roman eagle, and on each side are legionary standards. This was a favorite subject with the ancients, engraver; or, still more probably, a portrait of inasmuch as men naturally propitiated the god one of the Parthian kings, in the character of who presided over the subterranean world and Jupiter; an engraving upon a carnelian or its treasures. brown sand, winch is in a magnificent style, and Now these three types of antique gems, dealing evidently the work of a first-rate Greek artist. with the mythology of heathenism, introduce us The gem is about one-third less than the en­ to a very interesting and extensive subject, which graving, and is mainly executed with the diamond we propose to follow out more fully in future point. It has evidently been the signet stone of articles. one of the mighty Satraps of the great Parthian monarchy, and was found by the writer in a ROMAN COINS; small jeweller’s shop in a little lonely town in By W .H . Ta y l o r . Lincolnshire, set in a silver seal such as old- fashioned couni ry gentlemen used to wear sus­ “ Tlie face of an old Roman coin, scarce seen.” pended from their fobs. What a history could Love's La bom-'s Lost. that little carnelian stone tell us of the past two

thousand years, if we could only question it Chapter VII.—Consular Coins. aright, and it could answer us! The next en­ ( Concluded.) graving, the seated figure of Jupiter, leaning on ROSCIA.

L. R o s c ia . Head of Juno Sospita; behind a human head.

Rev,— F abati. A female standing before a serpent rising from the ground; behind a fish. This coin illustrates one of the many different No. 2. forms of worship existing among the Romans. his sceptre and wielding the thunderbolt, is upon The ceremony represented on the reverse was one a small sapphirine calccdony about half the size employed in the worship of Juno Sospita, viz.'— of the wood engraving, and shows the king of the feeding, by one of her priestesses, of the the gods, in session as it were, guiding and sacred serpent dedicated to that goddess; this directing the affairs of mortals. No. 3, the head of office had to be performed at stated times. 28 T1IE ARCHAEOLOGIST.

SERBIA, her name was afterwards given to the rock on

Winged head of Minerva behind roma, and x ; which the citadel stood. The moon and star before ex s. c. above the figures indicate that the event occurred

Rev.— M. SEJiGI. SILVS.

SOSIA. THORIA. Head of Mark Antony. i. s. M. it. i.e. (Juno Sospita, Magna Regina).

Rev.— c. sosivs. imp. Two, male and female, Head of Juno Soepita. captives sitting at the foot of a trophy. Rev.— h. THORivs, balbvs. a bull running. The coins of this family bear reference to the An allusion to Juno Sospita has already been exploits of Sosius against the Jews. Josephus made when describing a coin of the Roscian mentions him several times; he was made presi­ family. Thorius Balbus was famous for passing dent of Syria B. C. 38, by Antony. After the an agrarian law during his tribuneship, which capture of Jerusalem Sosius retired from that enacted, amongst other regulations, that no per­ city enriched with an immense plunder, a portion son should pay rent for the land he was possessed of which he employed in making a golden crown 1 of. The bull represented on the reverse is dedicated to the “ God of the Jews.” probably a punning reference to the prtenomen TITURIA. Thorius. 1. sadin. a. pv. A rude bearded head; before VALERIA. a branch. ACI6CVLVS. Head of Jupiter; behind, a Rev.— l . titvr i. Two soldiers adding their hammer.

shields to a heap, under which a woman is Rev.— l . Valerius. A female, her body ter­ lying; a crescent and a star above. minating in two fishes’ tails. This coin refers to the perfidy of Tarpeia, This family was one of the most famous of daughter of the governor of Rome. Having the Roman gens, supplying as it did, from time bargained with Tatins, king of the Sabines, to to time, some of the state’s most celebrated deliver up the city to him on condition that his consuls, lawgivers, and generals. The reverse soldiers gave her alt their bracelets in return; probably commemorates an event in the life of he entered the place, but threw upon her, in Valeria, (daughter of the great Publicola Vale­ addition to the golden bracelet he wore, his rius), who having been given as hostage to ponderous shield ; and his exampte being followed Porsenna. by the Romans, /led from the enemy, by his men, the treacherous Tarpeia was crushed and swam across the Tiber in company with to death. She was buried on the spot, and her Clcelia, another brave Roman maiden. THE ARCHAEOLOGIST. 29

W e trust that from the examples referred to, his presidency, inscribed as before, will not only the reader will now have some clear idea of the chronicle the modification of the republic, but value and interest of the consular series both to show bow astutely that consummate politician the historian and antiquary. was preparing the public for bis appearance in No branch of numismatics affords a wider field imperial effulgence. Ten years afterwards bo, for study and amusement than this, and as many assumed the laurel of the Ccesars ; and ere all the of the Roman family coins are to be bought from current values exhibited that alteration, the dealers at moderate prices, the young collector whole series was gradually swept away, to make will find that a fascinating source of intellectual room for the revived early republican type, first pleasure can be obtained without any very deep roughly imitated in lithograph, then more care­ inroads upon his purse. fully engraved ; itself to be now shortly in turn (To be continued). superseded by another type ! The unusual number and appearance of the pages devoted to the representatives of the ad­ PAPER COINS AND MEDALS joining country will puzzle the antiquaries of (Continued from page 7). future generations. Like some of the geological By Du. V in e b . ones, the paper medals of Spain will need an ex­ ur own “ paper medals ” will testify to the planatory glossary. Ocular inspection will pro­ O long reign of the present sovereign; and long, nounce more than one queen to have reigned long may it be ere the cry is raised “ the Queen from 1860 onwards, whereas the page of history is dead; long live the K ing.” W o must per­ will vouch for the unity of her Catholic Majesty. force add that they will also prove the vagaries Taking it for granted that the numerous portraits of postal officials— the discontinuance of a ten- of that ancient personage are all faithful, our penny stamp for many years while that value posterity will probably recognize the existence was in constant requisition— the emission of of a Spanish Madame Rachael, who annually re- ninepenny and threepenny values, long ere the juvenized the Queen ! latter was required for France, &c., and when The latest emissions of the same “ allowed to the former was not wanted at all ! It has reached pass current by the nation,” bear witness to her No. 4 only yet, while its companion counts No. sad downfall. Close upon these are the mural- 18. The still-life existence of the higher values crowned heads, betokening no particular govern­ of envelopes tnay be likewise instanced, which ment. Then we get those of the foreigner ranging from threepence to two shillings, are Amadeus, of Italy. These in turn give place to almost unknown even to postmasters, and appear an allegorical figure, which is shortly superseded in collections only ! by another; this time the emblem of justice. We need not travel far for indubitable proofs These again give place to the youthful King of the truth of our proposition. A tolerable A lfonso! Neither are these all the changes collection of French postage stamps will afford a stamped in the Spanish pages of a philatelist’s correct idea of the various governments of album : for the various issues of the now happily France for the past twenty-eight years. crushed pretender, Don Carlos, evidence the The beautifully impressed head of the Goddess struggles of his distracted country ! of Liberty will state the duration of the first The neighbouring kingdom of Portugal, whose republic ; the portrait of Louis Napoleon, during stamps, owing to their delicate cameo-like appear­ 30 TMIi ARCHEOLOGIST. ance, and well-contrasting hues, rank among the identical with their running from 1861 to 1863. most attractive, will prove to the remotest ages Like the first pair, they are unperforated. These simultaneously with our own and those of the were soon superseded by one less assimilating country last mentioned, that three kingdoms of with the Danish, and rouletted. Europe are not, hampered by the Salic law. A Contemporary with them, started a pair from trifling, but perhaps characteristic fact will ap­ Schleswig ; but these evinced decided Prussian proclivities, being modelled in the prevalent pear from the stamps of Don Pedro, that that North German fashion set by the Prussians in sovereign varied the dressing of his hair from 1861 ; their values corresponding with some smooth to curled ! employed by their quasi protectors. One of the most interesting and instructive Another twelvemonth would appear to have leaves in a stamp-collector’s book is perhaps that eradicated the slight remaining influence uniting devoted to the multifarious emissions of Schleswig the Holsteincrs to the Danes ; and a set of five Holstein, separately and conjointly. Cast your adhesives, representing the postal conjunction of eyes over such, and remark the numerous and both Duchies, forms the fourth set in philatelic albums. These are still more Prussianized than apparently unnecessary changes rung upon their predecessors; facially informing us that Schleswig and Holstein, and Schleswig-Holstein, 1^ schilling is equivalent to the North German and with a very superficial explanation, you silbergroseben, and the 4 seh. to its 3 s.g.; color­ must own their stamps form a valuable series of ing, moreover, the latter value in accordance “ paper medals.” with the ineffective hue of its monetary prototype. On the top lie a pair representative of the This unison of stamp issues by the Duchies did abortive insurrection of 1850. They did duty not prove permanent; a few months later pro­ from the November of that year until the Feb­ ducing a separate and complete series for both component parts. The two sets are identical in ruary of 1852 only ; and are now worth their values, and nominal ly, but in no instance precisely, weight in gold, if genuine antiques. But the in hue. These sets, with some minor unpolitical Wardour Streets of Hamburg and Switzerland changes, lasted till the amalgamation of the are prepared with a warranted supply to any North German postal districts. am ount; so their places need not be unfilled. To be continued.

They bear the united arms of the Duchies. Erratum.—J apan.— There is but one value of A dozen years rolled on while this solitary the Japanese newsbands. The higher values, couple remained “ alone in their glory ; ” some­ erroneously reported last month, are tor the letter times with a page to themselves; but most postals. usually in alhums, and ever in catalogues, lumped LITERARY NEWS. unceremoniously with the Danish. Then appears MONG recently published poems are the little cloud, smaller than a man’s hand ; but A “ Reverberations,” by W. M. W. Call; of what a tempest has it not been the forerunner! “ The Epic of Hades,” by “ A Now Writer The secession from the present kingdom of “ Alfred in Athelney,” by Lord Stratford de Denmark took place, and the Holstein issue of Redcliffe ; and “ Verses and Verseiets,” by “ A Lover of Nature.” Next month we hope to 1864 appeared. A couple of types commemorate publish a song from Mr. W. Laird-Clowes’ forth­ this phase in the duchy’s history, slightly, but coming poem, “ Meroe.” decidedly differing from each other, but yet Literary London has scarcely recovered from the excitement produced by a long letter from closely resembling the earlier Danish issues; the Mr. Robert Buchanan to the Daily News, ap­ posthorns, ornamentation,and central wreath being pealing on behalf of Walt Whitman to the THE ARCHEOLOGIST. 31 sympathies of Englishmen, The author of ' although they have been discovered in great “ Leaves of Grass ” is, we hear, in very bad numbers in Norfolk, Suffolk, and East Yorkshire, health ; and the letter is, therefore, well-timed. whilst burials of Saxons and other kindred tribes Mr. A . C. Swinburne lias lately completed a are numerous in those parts of the country which poem which is likely to create a stir, entitled were occupied by these respective people. I “ The Last Oracle.” know of only one other burial of about the Saxon The Cosmopolitan Critic, a new journal pub­ period having occured in the county of Durham, lished at Halifax, is a great acquisition to the and that was near Whitburn. The people who provincial literary world. We wish it all were interred at Greenbank had been buried success. with some of the articles which it is common to The cheap reprints of M. Verne’s scientific find associated with this class of interment. The exaggerations seem to have an enormous sale in man with his spear and shield (the first repre­ London, especially at the book-stalls. sented by the iron head, the other by its iron A play has been publshed by Mr. French, of boss), and perhaps with a bronze brooch, though the Strand, entitled “ Nelson,” One of the that might equally have accompanied the woman. characters is Horatia, the great admiral’s daugh­ She had been buried with the house key (at least ter, who is still living: and we need scarcely say the fragmentary piece of iron remaining seems that a more ill-advised instance of literary to represent that article), the appropriate adjunct indelicacy we have never met with. Outre cela, of the house-wife. ‘ Anglo Saxon ’ women arc the drama is weak, insipid, and childish to a not unfrequently found buried with the house degree. key, though the spindle is, perhaps, of more fre­ Mr. Irving’s impersonation of Othello is first­ quent occurence, whilst the ordinary accompani­ rate as a Shakespearian study, but eminently ment of the man is the spear. In Bavaria, at the characteristic of an actor who is an Englishman present day, male or female descent is spoken of and not a Moor. The play has not been a as coming through the spear or spindle side; success. and our own mediaeval grave-covers have the The Examiner claims to have discovered a new sword on that of a man, whilst the spears desig­ poet in the person of one “ A. Whistler,” who nate that of a woman, though the house key contributes “ fresh and original poems ” to some again is sometimes found instead of it, and in of Mr. Strahan’s publications. The Examiner some cases both the spears and the key. In one is very kind, very condescending, excessively instance with which 1 am acquainted there are good-natured, but not very discriminating. But | one pair of spears and two house keys on the perhaps the paragraph was an advertisement. grave cover, as if to say that one woman was Quien sale ? there interred, but that she had been twice a L eii-T e. I housewife, having had two husbands,”— G. M. T weddell. T hr F reemasons and B urns.— Amongst the recent celebrations of the birth-day of Burns, I A ncient Skeletons,— Three ancient skeletons am glad to see that the Freemasons of tho St. have been found recently at Greenbank, Darling­ James’ Lodge at Tarbolton have not neglected to ton, concerning which Canon Greenwell writes :— do honour to the memory of tho poet who has “ Three bodies appear to have been buried at enriched masonic literature with one of its few this spot, those of a man, a woman, and a child. really good songs; the major part, of the others There can be no difficulty in attributing them to being arrant rubbish, whether viewed as literary one of the principal stocks which have occupied productions, or as expositions of the glorious Great Britain, if the precise date itself cannot principles of tho craft. Whether Tarbolton be be ascertained. The burials are those of Angles, the burial-place of “ auld King Coil ” or not (and one of the branches of the Teutonic family, it has tradition fur its green mound in its favour), which began to settle in England in the fifth Burns has made his connection with its masonic century, and I should be inclined to consider lodge world-famous by his touching “ Farewell them Christian Angles, of, perhaps, the seventh to the Brethren of the St. James’ Lodge, Tar- century. It is,” adds the eminent antiquary, “ a boltou,” written when want and persecution were circumstance not easily to be accounted for, that about to drive htm from his native land, which very few interments of those people have been eternal disgrace to Scotland was saved through found in the Northern Counties of England, Masonry alone, as to that he owed his introduction 32 THE ARCHAEOLOGIST. to the Edinburgh literati. Let my readers, | much speech of a * lawless court (as they called whether brother Masons or otherwise, take down it) holden in a strange manner about Michaelmas their copy of Burns’ poems, and read once more in the first peep of the day, upon the first cock- the beautiful verses I have alluded to, and they crowing in a silent sort; yet with ahrew’d fines will feel all the better for having done so. Not eftsnons (?) redoubled if not answered ; which only was the “ one round ” asked for “ with a servile attendance, they say, was imposed upon tear ” by the bard to be given annually to his certain tenants thereabout for conspiring there at memory, duly accorded by his “ dear brothers of such unseasonable time to raise a commotion. the mystic tie,” in the very lodge where he had But 1 leave this, knowing neither the original nor so oft not only “ spent the festive night,” but also the certain form thereof. Only I heard certain “ presided o’er the sons of light but several of barbarous rhimes of it ; ‘ Curia de Domino Rege his best songs were sung, the famous “ Farewell” tenetur sine Lege Ante ortum fobs, luceat nisi being appropriately included, and, as I learn from polus, etc., not worth remembring.” — E. T. M a x ­ the Freemason, “ the jewel worn by the poet and well W alker. other relics had a conspicuous place assigned them.” I may mention that Thom, the sculptor (Q u n w si. of the statues illustrative of “ Tam o’Shanterand Souter Johnny,” on the Burns’ Monument at Coins.— I have in my possession 8 coins which Alloway, was born in the parish of Tarbolton ; were found, along with many more, a few years and his name, like that of the poet, is “ to ago, in a field at Cowlam on the Yorkshire Wolds. Masonry and Scotia dear.” —George M arkham They are bronze, small, except one which is about T weddell. the size of a halfpenny, and on which is inscribed dnconstantivspfayg. Can anyone tell me any­ R e p lie s . thing about this and the other coins discovered at the above place about the year 1859.— J. Hodg­ J ack of H ilton.— In reply to the query I have son, Cleethorpes. much pleasure in stating among the heirlooms Coin.— A gold coin, having on the obverse the belonging to Iiilton House, Staffordshire, was the Archangel Michael standing with his foot upon a hollow brass image of a kneeling man, having a dragon, the legend running kdward d e i gra, rex large aperture at the back, and a smaller one at ang. and franc. The reverse shows a ship with the mouth. This effigy was a foot high, and a cross for the mast, and the inscription, PER known as Jack of Hilton. Upon New Year’s-day CRUCEM TUA SALVA NOS XPE REDEMPT. If any of Jack was filled with water, and set by the hall your readers can give me any information respect­ fire, until getting up his steam he blew it from ing this coin, which is in good preservation, they his mouth in very audible fashion. Then the will oblige.— B isi-ey R olards. lord of the adjacent manor of Essington came A rms.— Whose arms are the following :— armp, into the liall with a live goose, which he drove argent; 3 pheons azure, in chief a mullet pierced round the fire three times before carrying it into of the second ? Crest.— On an esquire’s helmet, the kitchen to be dressed and cooked, when he thereon a wreath, a dexter arm couped below the bore it to the table of the lord of Hilton, and elbow, holding an arrow armed and feathered.— received in return a dish of meat for his own E. F auor M. W alker. dinner.— E. T. M axwell W alker. M rs. H unter.— Can any reader say where the R ush-B earing.— A good account of the ancient wife of the celebrated Dr. John Hunter, the custom of rush-bearing can be found in a period­ anatomist, was born ? The lady was a Miss ical now out of print called “ Long Ago,” Vol. I., Home, and a pleasing poetess.— LL.D. pages 17, 49, 78, 79 ; Vol. II., pages 120, 151. Q uotation.— In George Farquhar’s comedy, — E. T . M axwell W alker. [W e may add the “ The Recruiting Officer,” Act I., Scene II., is notes in “ Long Ago ” .arc chiefly drawn from an the following lin e: able paper by William Andrews, F.li.H.S., con­ “ And there’s a pleasure in being mad tributed to the Yorkshire Magazine, Vol. II. We Which none but madmen know.” understand ho is preparing an historical notice of Are they quoted from any other writer, or are the custom for the Royal Historical Society.— E d.] they original ?— E dwin T. M. W alker. T he L awless Court of E ssex.— The following I have copied from Camden’s “ Britannia” (1695), Note.—W. F. J,. R. S., & H. S. G-.’s contributions pages 341, 342 :— “ Here (Rochfort) 1 have heard will be attended to next month.—Ed. ®to ^rdurologisf.

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somewhat alike, although the former is rather ROMAN IMPERIAL COINS. the older looking; they both have antoninvs

pivs ave (ustus) on the obverse; but Caracalla’s T>ESIDES those of the Constantine family, frequently have in addition, brit (annicus), and 1 ' noticed in your March No., page 23, there sometimes GERM (anicus), which titles are never are several other coins in the Roman series, of on the coins of Elagabalas. different reigns, hearing the same name, which, The wives of Antoninus Pius and Marcus to a young collector, are difficult to distinguish ; Aurelius were mother and daughter; they each and the object of this paper is to point out to the bore the same name, favStin a , on their coins, tyro, how they may be correctly assigned. which are abundant both in silver and bronze. As is well known, a Roman Emperor of note The coins of Faustina, senior, are known by the frequently had his name adopted, not. only by his graceful ornament or coronet on the top of her immediate successor, but also by more distant head, whilst those of the daughter have a simi­ ones ; in fact, two of the earliest names con­ lar appendage on the back o f her head. nected with the empire, viz., Cassar and Augustus, were used as titles of honour by almost every The fashion of the head-dresses of the various Kmpcror down to its close. Empresses (there are scarcely two alike) would The name of Antoninus Pius was recorded on form an interesting study to the fair sex, or to the coins of three other Emperors ; 1st by those who are curious in such matters. Marcus Aurelius, who succeeded him ; 2nd by There arc three Emperors named Gordianus ; Caracalla, so called because he wore a peculiar the two first (bather and son) have each the same Claulish tunic or cloak ; and 3rd by Elagabalus, legend on their coins, viz., imp (erator) M (arcus) or Ileliogabalus, meaning the high priest of the ant (oninus) Gordian vs afr (icanus) AVG (ustus), sun worshippers. but on good specimens they may be distinguished The difference between the coins of Antoninus by the father having an old face, with a low Pius, and his son-in-law, Marcus Aurcdius, is wrinkled forehead ; whilst the son has a young palpable. The former has a short beard and a faee, and a high smooth forehead. The coins of projecting chin, whilst the latter has a handsome these two Emperors are very rare in all metals. face, with long beard, and frequently m a v k e l i v s , Those of Gordianus III., from having Piva as a prefix to his assumed name. generally added to his name, and from having a It is more difficult to distinguish the coins of spiked or radiated crown on his head (which the Caracalla and Elagabalus, the portraits being two others have not), can be more readily classed. 34 THE ARCHÆOLOGIST.

The silver and bronze coins of tins reign are she is said to have been a native of Britain, and plentiful, Each of the three Gordiani have the was mother of Constantius the Great, 2nd, same first names, Marcus Antonius. Flavia, wife of Julianus, better known as Julian The next two Emperors with the same name the Apostate, It has been, however, doubted on their coins, are: 1st, Caius Julius Verus whether the latter had coins struck to her honour. MAXlMisvs I., who is said to be of gigantic stature, Mr, Madden, in his “ Handbook of Roman and of enormous strength ; he has large coarse Numismatics,” (London, 1861), asserts, that the features on his coins, with beard, moustache, and larger bronze coins of Helena I,, the legends of a very projecting chin ; sometimes he has pivs which are in the dative case, reading He l e n a s , or g e r m (anicus) after his name, which are not wore struck during her life-time; and the smaller found on his namesake’s, 2nd, Galerius Valerius ones, reading h e l e n a e a v g v s t a , were struck by maximinvs II., surnamed Daza. Between these her son after his mother’s death. two reigns, the first brass coin, or sestertius, had Lastly, there were two Emperors of Rome, been discontinued, and a new bronze coin called named Valentinianus; to the first may be assigned follis introduced by Diocletianus. Those coins all the coins with an old face ; to the second that have a moustache only, with a smooth chin, belong those with ivx(ior) after his name, or with belong to this monarch. a young face, as he died at 21 years of age. The next two Emperors bearing the same sur­ After the seat of empire was transferred to name on their coins, wore : 1 st, Marcus Aurelius Constantinople, there was a Valentinianus HI.;

Valerius m a x i m i a n v s , surnamed Hercules. Like but as these observations are confined to the the preceding historical names of Caracal la, Western Empire, his coins will not now bn Elagabalus, and Daza, this name does not appear noticed. H. S. Gill. on the legends, but the figure or attributes of Erratum on page 23, in foot note, throe lines

Hercules arc sometimes found on the reverse ; from bottom, for constantivs , road Co n s t a n t in vs. and those coins with the initials of Marcus

Aurelius, sEN(ior), or i n v i c t ( u s ) , belong to this THE COINAGE OF NORTIIUMBRrA.

reign. 2nd, Galerius Valerius m a x i m i a n v s II. B y W. F. J.

When c a l .v a l , or Gouly, precede the surname, riJHE coins of Britain, though not such splendid the coins may be assigned to this Emperor ; and -* specimens of the medallic art as those of

it is usual to place those with the name of c .e s a r Greece and Rome, must still possess great interest to him, as he bore that title 13 years, whilst his for every Englishman, from the light they throw namesake had it only one year. upon the past history of our country, taking him A common reverse on the follis of the lower back in imagination to the far away time when empire, is the genius of Home standing, with England was divided into many' small kingdoms.

legend, Gf.x i o p o p v l i r o m a n i. Both the above The most interesting, perhaps, of these king­ Emperors had this reverse, and from their doms is Northumbria, the one that retained its portraits being similar, and the inscriptions on independence the longest, and whence issued the the obverse often exactly alike, it is perhaps only brass coins known to have been struck by more difficult to assign their coins than any other the Anglo-Saxons. The earliest known pro­ o f the Imperial scries. duction of its mints is a styca of Egcfrith, A.It There were two Empresses named Helena; 670-681; it is remarkable, as it bears no Flavia Julia, first wife of Constantins Chlorus ; moneyer’s name on the reverse. THE ARCHEOLOGIST. 35

No further coins appear to have been issued a road from Eboracum, a via vincinalis or till the reign of Eanred, who ascended the throne secondary road, inferior to those used for mili­ A.D. 808. Of this monarch there are stycas tary purposes, which ran through Petuaria, with a cross or other ornament in the centre, and presumed to have been Beverley, and as it would various moneyere’ names; and also one silver seem, passed by Swine, as the remains o f a m ili­ penny, bearing his portrait on the obverse. The tary encampment with earthworks, are still, or only coins of Edilred, who succeeded him in 840, were a few years ago, plainly visible. This are stycas, which are tolerably numerous ; the encampment was in a field called “ Wood ” on types are much the same as his predecessors. Car-house farm, occupied by the writer’s grand­ The stycas of Redult are not remarkable. On father, and afterwards by one of his uncles, those of Osbcrcht, 849-862, the title of Rex is whose ploughmen not unfrequently turned up sometimes omitted. Roman implements, and on one occasion struck On a penny of Regnald is found the first their ploughshares against some piles which instance of the occurrence of the Saxon word seemed to have supported a bridge across the cvnvnc, instead of the Latin, rex. surrounding ditch. On the coins of Anlaf, or Onlaf, who was In March, 1826, a school-boy from an outlying driven from Northumberland the same year as farm chanced to lose a piece of money when going

Rcgnald, sometimes cvxvnc is found, and at to school, and for several days afterwards made other times r e x . On the obverse of one of them diligent search for it along the route. He did not is the Raven, the famous ensign of the Danes. find what he had lost, but be picked up a little Yric, a Norwegian viking, who was raised to black-looking coin which he showed to the boy the throne about the year 947, struck coins sitting next to him at school, saying, “ Seetha bearing the figure of a sword. whot a pratty lahtle haupeny ah’ve Eun.” Passing In 954, Yric was slain by his own subjects, from one hand to another, it attracted the notice and Northumbria became finally united to the of the master, who saw at once that it was a rest of England. Roman coin, and asked the boy where he got it. “ Ah fun it,” ho replied, “ I’ yan o’ Megson’s clooaaes.” “ Well,” said the master, Mark Hesel­ ROMAN COINS FOUND AT SWINE, tine, an antiquary in a small way, “ see if you HOLDERNESS. can find any more, and I will give you a penny T t was some time after the conquest of the a-piece for them.” As soon as the school was T Brigantes by the Romans, that Holderness— dismissed, instead of resorting as usual to leap­ peopled by a different although kindred race, the frog, tops, and taws, all the scholars, girls as well Parisi— was subjected to the rule o f the masters as boys, hastened to Megson’s “ clooas,” and of the world ; but eventually it was found that commenced grubbing-up the earth. For a long the district possessed a convenient harbour, time nothing was found, and they had begun to situated either at Patrington or Spurn Point (it despair of earning the promised pennies, when is not known which), and there was established one of the boys, who had gone deeper than the a port called Proetarium, for the shipment of j others, came upon an earthen vessel. A rush torn from Maxima Ctesariensis to Rome, where ! was made towards it by the rest, and in the the Praetor Cerealis resided to superintend the scuffle which ensued it was broken, and out tum- transmission of grain. Thither was constructed | bled a vast quantity of the identical coins they 36 THE ARCHEOLOGIST. were in search of. Fancying their fortunes were She whispered, thoughtless o f the morrow, Warm words of love that lingered long made, they scrambled and fought for them, the Around my ear, forbidding sorrow biggest boys getting the lion’s share, with which And mingling in a lovely song ; they hastened back to school, and displayed them Until away for ever The faithless breezes bore to the master, who finding the market thus What art of man can never glutted backed out of the bargain, merely making Again to me restore. a selection from them, and the rest were taken A sigh of doubt, her words denying She stifled with a burning kiss to their homes by the boys. Very few of those That made a convert of it dying boys of half-a-century ago are now living, but In such an ecstacy of bliss ; one at least who joined in the scramble, one of But soon the kiss cold-growing Itself was dead and pale, the lesser, who got a very small share— Mr. And midnight winds were blowing George Ross, of Driffield, cousin of the writer— Its soul upon the gale. still survives. A dainty sheaf of hazel tresses She gave me when the sleepless moon The coins, some 15,000 in number, got scat­ Was high in heaven’s starred recesses ; tered abroad, and many came into the possession And this, my spell at night and noon, even of the plough lads and milk maids. The Brings up before me even Her shadow on the gloom, writer, who at the time spent his holidays at That for a space must sever Car-houie, recollects when there in 1826, seeing A heart from bliss or doom. some servant-girls rubbing them on the “ hossin­ The entire poem which extends to about 3,50b clog ” to give them a polish, an operation the lines, will probably be published in the summer sight of which would make an antiquary shudder. by Messrs. H. S. King and Co. Unfortunately the fragments of the jar were not A third series of the Savage Club Papers, preserved, else they might have been cemented edited by W . Fargeon, is in preparation and will together. be shortly published. The coins were chiefly those of Constantine One ot' the best known continental philatelists the Great, with others of previous emperors, and is at present German master at Aldenham School, one or more of the Empress Helena, mother of Herts. Constantine; the reverses of a great number The complete edition of Walt. Whitmans being Romulus and Remus suckled by the wolf. “ Leaves of Grass” has been having a large sale In the year 1829 Mr. Heseltine presented several in London since the appearance of Robert to the Society of Antiquaries. F redk. Ross Buchanan’s celebrated letter. Swinburne’s “ Last Oracle ” appears in tin. LITERARY NEWS. May number of Belgravia. E append, according to promise, a song W from Mr. W. Laird-Clowes’ forthcoming poem entitled “ Meroe.” TnE Jersey Coinage.— Recently a bill l'as She gazed with eyes o f none but lover, been passed by the Jersey States to get rid of the And I adored her as she stood, present coinage {the penny-piece being only one- With night's unfathomed gloom above her A mystery of womanhood : thirteenth of a shilling), and substitute coins But, when those eyes were hidden ' equally the twelfth and twenty-fourth parts of * And she was far away, shilling. The new coinage will bear the Jersey I could not then unbidden Such adoration pay. arms. THE ARCHAEOLOGIST. 37

“ King ” had been apprehended at Halifax, some §?0pufcw Antiquities. of the gang murdered Mr. Deighton, a supervisor, E d i t e d b y WILLIAM ANDREWS, F.R.II.S. within one hundred yards of his own house; for which crime, Robert Thomas was executed at C o in e r s a n d C l i p p e r s .— In the yc-:ir 1769, York, on the 6th of August, 1774 ; and gibbeted circumstances occurred in the parish of Halifax on the Beacon H ill, with his right hand pointing that excited an unfavourable opinion of the to the scene of the murder. Matthew Normanton character of the population of its secluded valleys. also suffered death as an accomplice. Another Of these events, the obscure valley of Turvin, in of the gang was afterwards executed, and the the township of Erringden, was the principal scene. criminal confederacy was finally broken up. It The lawless disposition of the inhabitants, and was long, however, before the practice was com­ the inaccessible nature of the place, at the time pletely abandoned; and up to a late period we have mentioned, rendered this valley and the counterfeit money is stated to have been very adjoining wilds unhappily notorious, and at abundant in the vicinity. length attracted the attention of Government. Seamek W ater.— Years ago, when saints visited Here the current coins of England and Portugal the earth, a poor old man wandered into Raydale, were clipped and defaced ; and the clippings and where a large city then stood, soliciting alms from filings during several years were melted down house to house. Every door was shut against him, and re-struck in dies. The coiners had no screw save one, a humble cot without the city' wall. presses for the purpose, but fixed their dies in The good folks of the small house bade him heavy blocks; the impression was produced by enter, and made him welcome, setting before him the strokes of sledge hammers, which were oaten bread, cheese, and milk, and prepared him nightly heard on every side, no one daring to a pallet whereon to sleep. The following day interrupt the powerful and desperate gang. The the old man pronounced a blessing on the house following are the events which led to their and departed : but as he went forth, he turned apprehension and dispersion In the early part on the city and thus spake :— of 1769, a man at Leeds was indicted for paying “ Seamer water rise, Seamer water sink, a bad “ six-and-thirty,” and many persons in Swallow all the town Save the little house Halifax and other places were apprehended for Where they gave me bread and drink.” clipping and sweating the 36s., 18s., and 6s. 9d,, Whereupon followed the roar of an earthquake and other gold pieces, and for counterfeiting the and the rush of water ; the city sunk down, and Portuguese coin then current in England. At the broad lake of one hundred and five acres the York Spring Assizes about forty coiners and rolled over its site. The charitable couple who clippers were tried, but only two were executed, entertained the stranger were preserved, and viz., James Oldfield, of Warley, and David shortly, by some miraculous means, they found Hartley, of Erringden. The latter was called themselves rich ; and a blessing rested upon them “ King David ” by his illicit fraternity, who had and their posterity. This legend somewhat another chief distinguished by the title of “ Duke resembles one of the Norske, where Gertrude of Edinburgh.” The favourite haunt of this refuses to feed St. Peter, though he miraculously desperate gang was the wild and and mountainous multiplies her store, and she is condemned to find region we have already mentioned, of which her food between bole and bark, and only drink many of them were natives, After Davi i their when the rain falls in the shape of the woodpecker. 38 THE ARCHAEOLOGIST.

On the margin of lake Seamcr, near the break articles found. In addition there was the where the Bain flows out, are two big stones which skeleton of a young pig. Mr. Stillingfleet, in have lain in their present position ever since the the years 1816-17, excavated several barrows in devil and the giant pelted one another from hill this and the adjoining farm of Hessleskew, and to hill across the water. To bear out this story, ha3 given a short account of two similar burials, there yet remain on the stones the marks of the lie has engraved on his notes a bit which is pre­ evil one’B hands. cisely like those above mentioned. These burials are o f the late Celtic period, and the body last s ta te s . found was of the Dolico-cephaltic type. Last year Canon Greenwell found a burial of the same

A rchaeological D iscoveries.— Some workmen kind and period in Westwood, but owing to the engaged in digging a gravel pit at Ferre en grave being in clay, it all, with the exception of Tardenois, in France, discovered the burial place the wheel tires and the iron parts of the naves of one of the ancient Gauls, who had been and bit (which are now in the British Museum), interred there, together with his war chariot. had gone entirely to decay. The chief part of the car and wheels had resisted D iscovery of A ncient G raves.—’The Patroite the inroads of time. Several earthen vases, with Suisse of Nenfchatel publishes full particulars of various arms and ornaments, which had doubtless a discovery made on the shore of the lake near belonged to the warrior, were also found, together Oolombier, which should have the highest inter­ with a sword and the iron head of a spear,— At est for those archaeologists w ho have turned their Beverley, recently, while some workmen were attention to primitive lake dwellings (says the removing chalk from the side of the pits in Arras Pall Mall Gazette). It is known that there is Scroggs, they accidentally openeda grave excavated hardly one of the Swiss lakes, large or small, in the solid rock, 13 feet in diameter, which, in which has not given up traces of these singular consequence of the small elevation of the barrow habitations ; but nothing was hitherto known as by which it was covered, had escaped previous to the mode of sepulture adopted by the race observation. It contained all the skeleton of a that dwelt in them. During the latter part of human adult, between dO and 50 years of age, January, however, some workmen excavating the lying, according to the statement of the workmen, foundations for a new building close to the lake at full length. Behind its back had been placed came across some huge flat rocks, placed evidently the wheels of a chariot, of which the iron tires by human hand in an horizontal position, and and the bronze hoops surrounding the naves, lying near each other on a level which once in with the nails and the bronze connected with the j all probability was the natural surface. Each woodwork, were in good condition. These, with block was a boulder brought apparently some two snaffle-bits of good workmanship, on which little distance, and covered a square cavity care­ time had made no impression beyond causing fully lined with slabs of stone, and filled witli them to be slightly patinated, and (laid under the earth mixed with light gravel and sand. One of head of the skeleton) a mirror of iron mounted these square cavities or graves has been carefully with bronze, which was considerably oxydised, cleared, and proved to contain fourteen skeletons and had been somewhat injured by the finders, of adults and one of a child, all in very fair pre­ together with on ornamented bronze ring, pro­ servation. The form of the skulls is said not to bably part of the harness, were the only metal be of the very early type generally identified THE ARCHAEOLOGIST. with tho rude early cave-dwellers; and some Nowther rispect ner happiness Can follow drunken men. brass rings found indicate the use of that metal, Keep sowber, lads, keep sowber ! at any rate for ornament. A stone hatchet was Whativver yer fate ma’ be : also found, and a number of bear’s teeth pierced Awd Bacchus is a tyrant god,— for stringing. The remainder of this cemetery 1 Tiv him deea n ’t bow yer knee. of an extinct people has yet to be examined. Keep sowber, lads, keep sowber ! An’ if y a ’ve bravely strivven An inhabitant of Symphoricn, near La Haye- Te gain trew happiness on t’ yetb, du-Puit, in the Department of the Manche, has Ya ’ll gain it, lads, i’ hi wen. dug out of his garden a long pitcher of an antique With pleasure we recommend this volume to tha pattern, contains several thousand Roman coins. attention of ourfriends. W e hope Mrs. Tweddelj These nieces are mostly of copper or brass, but will receive sufficient encouragement to pro­ there are some of white flint, which evidently duce many more publications similar to the contains a quantity of silver. They are in a volume before us. The merits of the book are good state of preservation, and exhibit the busts sufficient to win it a hearty welcome with the of several of the Roman Consuls. The discovery man of taste. seems to countenance the belief that there was a Roman station at this point —probably an out­

post of the famous camp of Moncastre. L o c k y a n d W i f e .— At Kirkby church, Cleve­ R hymes and Sketches to illustrate the land, on a stone built in a wall near the ground, Cleveland D ialect. (Tweddell and Son, Pub­ on the south side, is the figure of a female, about lishers, Stokesley.)— Mrs. Tweddell has long been eighteen inches in height, much weather-worn, before the literary world as an authoress. In bearing in her left hand a globe, and at a little the sweetest strains she lias sang of the charms of distance is another figure, in ecclesiastical vesture, dear old Cleveland, a part of the great county of apparently a horseman. Both are much oblitera­ York, where may be found fine scenery and ted. On another stone in the wall is carved a active industry. It is a cross. It is amongst the tombstones on the north “ Land of hills ami woods and streams, side of the church that claims most attention. Fairer than a poet’s dreams. On a slab, rudely sculptured, arc the effigies, Great service has been rendered by Mrs. Tweddcll, male and female, known as Locky and W ife. W e in collecting the many curious dialect words, and are told by tradition that Locky was a great weaving them into verse ami tale, display much worker. He intimated one day to his wife that humour and pathos. There is a poem, con­ he could mow a certain four-acre field if she taining good advice, entitled “ Keep Sowber.” could follow him with the rake. The wife was W e give it as a specimen :— aB vain as her husband of her strength and Keep sowber, lads, keep sowber ! ability, and said she would do her best. Both Just stop a bit an’ think What misery ya ’ll ha’e to bahd commenced operations, but the labour was too If yance ya tak tc drink. much for them, and both died through overwork. Keep sowber. lads, keep sowber ! So toiling Locky and his wife passed away, hut Then ya 'll be secar tc tlirahve: their names still survive, and the timeworn stone Drink’s rpialified te inak a slave O’ t’ cleverest chap alahve. bears witness of their lives. The traditionary Keep sowber, lads, keep sowber ! field, which is in the adjoining township of Ya ’ll be inspected then : ( Broughton, is still pointed out, and known as 40 THE ARCHEOLOGIST.

“ Locky’s Day’s Work.” I am told this is only found the following in Long Ago, Vol. I „ 4, a legend. Can Mr. Tweddell, your able con­ Apiil, 1873, pages 123, 124:—“ The rector of Ilallaton had originally to provide two hare pies, tributor, give the history of the monument, and two dozen loaves, and a quantity of ale, to be oblige, W. A. scrambled for, in consideration of the benefit he

Coin.— I have a halfpenny of George III., date derived from the JIare-crop Leys. The Leys were enclosed a hundred years ago, and another 1771, with the word nux for rex. Is it a genuine piece of land apportioned to the same purpose.” coin, and the result of an engraver’s blunder in —A mbulator. the die ? and did it get into general circulation ? Coin.— The coin described last month by Mr. or is it a forgery ? It is the only one I have seen Bisley Richards is an angel of the reign of Ed­ ward IV . It is so called from the fact of a figure that bears this typographical error.— J. O. Smith. of the Archangel Michael appearing on the ob­ W eatherley. — What are the armorial bearings verse. If in good preservation it is worth about of this family ? Also any information respecting £1 10s.— W. H. T aylor. the family will be thankfully received by — Coin.— The piece described in your March BUNTINGSDALE. issue by E. T. Maxwell Walker is a brass or copper Nuremburg counter or jeton. The cor­ T homas Carr.— One of my Yorkshire charac­ rect readings of the legends are: ex pace vbertas, ters, of whom I unfortunately know almost as typified by the woman with the cornucopia ; nothing, is Thomas Carr, a native of Ilexthorpe, Rev., a delphino incolvmitas, the dolphin repre­ senting the Dauphin of France. See Neumann’s near Doncaster, and a well-known dealer in Lin­ Kupfer Miinzen, prag 18G8, No. 32363.— J. coln and neighbourhood of almanacks and fish ! K eumack F ord.

If you have any correspondent in this city who T raders’ T okens.— Continuing what I said in would take the trouble and interest to enquire for the March number on this subject, I may state that more than twenty tokens of the Irish series further particulars of this “ eccentric,” they will bear date so late as 1679, all of which are to be be very welcome — II. E. Smith. found in Boyne’s work. A friend sends me a description of the following farthing issued in 1780 :— james angus ; in the field, a sugar-loaf, a farthin g; Rev. —TEA shop in the field; a . shift, 1780, gi, \sgow. 1 have a few other tokens which, J ack of H ilton.— From the account given by although not dated, are evidently of a later period Mr. Maxwell Walker, o f the vessel amongst the than the 17th century, but earlier than those heir-looms at Hilton House, and bearing llic commencing 1787. These intermediate tokens above title, 1 have no hesitation in classing it are mostly Scotch or Irish.— W. II. T aylor. with other rare ewers in latten, executed in T he W olf Club -—-You nsk for some infor­ mediaeval times. During the latter part of the mation in yoiu* February number respecting the thirteenth century, vessels in this metal— probably Wolf Club. When I was a young man, and used at times for wine as well as water-— and in frequented the theatre, J know there was such a the form of equestrian knights, took the place club talked about, and it was said to be supported of earlier ones in terra-cotta; and I may suggest by the elder Kean. 1 cannot say where it was “ Jack of Hilton,” in representing a beggar, or held, but it was supposed by many to be held mendicant friar, to have formed a companion- privately by Edmund Kean. This I know for a piece to one of the former class. This interestinsr fact, and it was in all the caricature shop-windows gattaiium will be found described at considerable in London. It consisted of the interior of a length, as well as illustrated, in one of the early theatre, and the audience, with wolves’ heads, volumes of the Archceologice, but not having this hissing; underneath it said, “ The Wolves trium­ important work at hand, 1 am unable to furnish phant, or a Fig for Public Opinion.” You might a specific reference. H. E croyd Smith. get some further information respecting it at the Curious Old Custom at IIallaton, L eicester­ Harp, opposite the stage door, Drury Lane shire (Bee Mercury, Vol. I., 0, Oct., 1871).— 1 Theatre.— W. B ennett. THE W . F. SEEBECK, ¡Pgcuwimr §riefmarheit ¡^njriger* P O. Box 4926, N ew Y ork, U.S. (CONSTANTLY has on hand at very low rates, a ' k-/l large and well-assorted stock of used and un­ SEMI-MONTHLY Journal, devoted only used North and South American Postage and Revenue A to Stamp Collecting. Appears since 1871, Stamps, including rarities, varieties, Sec. the 1st and 15th of every mouth. No. 100 now Price List gratis, and Stamps sent on approval to ready. Annual subscription abroad (24 copies) responsible parties. Tost Free, 4s. Single copies 2Jd. All kinds of Australian and other British Colonial Stamps wanted in any quantities. T he E dito r, Hamburg (Germany;. HE LEGEND OF THE HOLY THORN that grew at Glas­ tonbury ; also a Poem o f the TThorn, with woodcut. Free for 1 O O O WELL MIXED F0REIGN STAMPS, 1 U U v f p0Bt f]-ee i s 33 . superior ditto 2s. 7d 18 stamps. List of stamps, packets, sets, albums, now ready post Address, T homas Sampson, free l£d. Agents wanted.—J. D. R ussell, 02, Strat- Yeovil, Mid. Somerset. ford-road, Sparkbrook, Birmingham. Strong Plants of the Holy Thorn, at the following prices : 3/6, 6/-, and 7/0 each.

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A ntiquary, N umismatist, Student of Science and A rt, and Philatelist.

V ol. II. No. 13.] -TUNE, 1876. [P rice 2d.

2nd to the 4tb century, for the coarse wheel-cut, TYPES OF ANTIQUE GEMS. abraxas, and gnostic gems which had then super­ From the Collection of the Rev. R. H. Ca v e. seded the exquisite engravings of the classic age. ( Continued.) For camei work, which is engraving in high r p H E stones which have been commonly or low relief upon stones of two or more strata, -I employed for the purpose of gem engraving the onyx and agate have been usually employed. have been the various kinds of quartz, or siliceous The reader will take notice that the modern shell earth, either in a crystallized or amorphous state. camei, with which the English people arc mostly Calcedony, perhaps, has been more used than any acquainted as ornaments for brooches and brace­ other kind of stones; and then come, in their lets, are of very little account or value as com­ successive order for rareness, the garnet, the pared with work upon the hard stones used for amethyst, lapislázuli, the jacynth, the emerald, this purpose from the very earliest times. Shell the sapphire. Engravings upon the last two caraei are in fact simply scraped with a knife precious stones are of exceeding rarity, so that upon the soft yielding surface of the Indian in fact it has been doubted by some collectors conch. Antique engravings upon stones were whether any antique engravings upon the emerald done with a drill and diamond dust, and with or sapphire are to be met with at all. A few, the diamond point to cut out the minute details however, are of undoubted authenticity. The upon both intaglie and camei. Modern work present writer has a horse regardant cut upon a upon stones— mostly used now for crests and large emerald of poor quality, which is Asiatic- coats o f arms— is done with a wheel and lathe, Greek work ; and of which he purposes to give employing diamond dust also. But the art is an engraving by and by. The sard, so called almost lost: and except a few valueless camei, from the Persian “ sered,” yellow, and the engraved in Italy for studs and shirt pinB, nothing cameliau, usually have upon them the best is done in this way at present; and, in fact, if antique work. The root of emerald, or plasma, the art were revived to-morrow, the time of a pretty green translucent stone, bears commonly skilled workmen is so valuable now-a-days, that rough work of a late period. The jaspers, red the gems would cost even more than good antique and green, are varieties of calcedony mixed with work can be bought for. earths, which render them opaque. These stones The engravings we give this month are of the have all been mainly used by the ancients for earliest dawn of the art in Babylonia, Persia, intaglie. They were much employed from the and Etruria, respectively. These are, to speak 42 THE ARCHEOLOGIST. roughly, about from two to three thousand years Many, indeed, are the myths of the Greek and old. They are exceedingly ru de: worked almost Roman poets concerning him. He had his resi­ entirely with the drill ; the drill being a rounded dence on Mount Helicon, where, by striking the steel point, “ thrilled” with a small bow held in earth with his hoof, he instantly raised a fountain the hand— such as jewellers use at the present of water, called Hippocrene, or the Horses time for drilling holes in watch work. This Spring. On the back of Pegasus, Bellerophon drill, with diamond powder and oil, produced conquered the Chimcera; and later on, Perseus hollows in the hardest stones, and lines, which rescued Andromache, it is no classical engraving, formed such rude figures as those of the en­ however, we have here, but a gravings here given. Babylonian seal, in white trans­ parent ealcedony, of an age No. 1 is a Persian cone on a before the foundation of either beautiful sapphirine ealcedony ; Athens or of Rome. In fact, the the cone obtuse, cut with eight myth itself, like other classical stories, is trace­ sides, so as to make the signet able up to the fountain head of all European an octagon. Probably this octa­ fables; to that great Indian source from which gon shape was a form replete Greece, and Rome, Germany, and England, and with mystic virtues amongst the Medes and indeed, all modern Europe has got its language Persians; as at the cinque-cento period, and with and its legends. On either side of Pegasus are the Rosicrucians later on. In fact, this octa­ the sun and moon,givingan astrological symbolism gonal cone is much the same shape as that of the to the gem ; and two letters are cut above, in an Lingam in India at the present day ; and its archaic Parthian character. The signet itself is hidden meaning was probably much the same: a hemispherical one, this being the form which the Lingam, being a symbol of the generative the Babylonian seal usually took, as the cylinder power ; a type of the penetrating ray of the sun: was the form of the Assyrians, and the cone that and this was, of course, an idea which would of the Persians. greatly recommend the symbol to a fire worship­ The Etruscans, who give us the next example ping race, such as the Persians were. Mr. King of a signet, were a people about whom historians tells us that these octagonal seals may be assigned have been at odds on many important points. What for the most part, to the times of the first was their origin ? What their language ? What Ninevitish and Persian Monarchies. They have their skill in the arts 1 These are subjects upon a small hole drilled through the upper part, to which even well instructed people are divided. admit a string for hanging them about the neck; Upon the whole, it seems most probable that they the regular mode in those days o f carrying the came from an Assyrian stock—-Asiatic Tyrrheni. signet. At the base of the stone, of which an They seem to have arrived in Italy as colonists engraving is given, i3 a rudely cut intaglio, done from Lydia, and to have brought with them the entirely with the drill, of a mobed, or priest, art of gem engraving from their Assyrian fore­ sacrificing at a fire altar, with the crescent moon fathers. They were essentially an artistic race ; above. This seal was probably the signet of one luxurious, effeminate, and sensual. But they of the magi of the time of “ Darius, the Persian.’’ carried into Italy a branch of art which, both with W e usually associate the legend of Pegasus, or them and with the Greeks, blossomed into a the winged horse, with purely classical times. magnificence that has never been surpxisacd. THE ARCHAEOLOGIST. 43

Their gem engraving, beginning with the rude would be of interest to some of your readers. intaglie engraved upon the base of scarubei with As much has been written on the history of these the drill,grew into the perfection of the engraver’s tokens, and to save repetition, I intend to give, art, wrought with the greatest refinement of under each County, a list of the works bearing which that art is capable. Greek intaglie are on the subject, since Boyne’s general list pub­ generally found in the stone called the golden or lished in 1858. yellow sard. But the Etruscans seldom or never I might mention that the circulation of these made use of this gem. The Etruscan scarabei tokens was quite illegal, though for twenty-five in my own cabinet are almost always engraved years winked at by the Government, and were upon the agate onyx, cut transversely, so as to eventually suppressed; but not without a struggle, display the band across the stone ; and a very for they were very profitable to the issuers. It beautiful stone it is— this oriental onyx. The is said that one unfortunate city lost its charter type herewith given is one o f the most archaic. in consequence; but as this has, however, been It represents a drunken Faun holding denied, and the said city having only recently a wineskin, and is entirely wrought been in hot water, I will not add to her with the drill upon a Carnelian shame by naming her and the sins of 200 years scaraboeus. But the reader who wishes to see the ago. perfection of Etruscan art must visit the British B edfordshire . Museum, and examine carefully the silver BIGGLESWADE. mirrors— especially those of the Castellani col­ 1 Obv.---- A. BIGILSWORTH. HALF. PENY.-----A C r ip p le on crutches. lection— upon which this strange race seem to Rev.— c h a in g d . b t . t h e . o v e r s e e r s ,— A spin­ have lavished all the best skill that they could ning wheel. bring to bear upon this department of the fine This token is heart-shape. arts. W e shall see in another article that they LANGFORD. could do something better in gem engraving than 2 Obv.— CHANGED. BV. VK' OVERSEERS. OF. LANGFORD. Rev.— LANGFORD. IN. Y*- COVNTY. OF, BED. HALFE. the type given above. PENNY. 1668. I shall be glad of any notes referring to CORPORATION TOWN-TOKENS, ISSUED above; and also to add 2 to my collection. IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. No list since Boyne’s has been written on this County. F you have space in your interesting paper I H enry Christie. I should like to give, from time to time, a list To be continued. of those cities and towns that struck halfpenny and farthing tokens in their corporate or official “ THE VENDETTA” IN YORKSHIRE. capacity. Boyne in his valuable work has enume­ rated most of them, but only in conjunction with ABALISTIC incantation and denunciation those tokens issued by tradesmen ; the latter are Cprobably never abounded to any great extent very numerous, and to give a complete list of in Britain, after the era of Pagan Saxendom, them is impossible, in consequence of new when a witchcraft of Scandinavian origin, wholly varieties constantly being found in old ruins and distinct from the scientific sorcery derived from excavations. I think, therefore, a separate list the Arabians in Spain, and professing to hold of the Town-pieces, as they are commonly called, direct communiction with fiends, was introduced 44 THE ARCHEOLOGIST. here and known as the old augury. W e are told make this that James Phillip John Phillip his that besides the iiinee of sepulchral monuments, son Christopher Phillip andThomas Phillip his(son) several other kinds were contemporaneously in shall ilec Richmondshire and nothing (prosper) use ; one of these being denominated mai-runes, v/ith any of them (in) Richmondshire.” J-1 the or the bad, being applied to the brooding over, foot of same side of this plate, are engraved the and the vindictive revenge of injuries real or cabalistic signs of “ The Spirit of the Spirits of supposed, moon;” the last symbol being left imperfect by A remarkable instance of astrological necromancy the persons who manufactured the spell. On and anathema is connected with our county, which the obverse there is “ the magic square of the also I fear bears the discredit of being the scene moon in her compass.” It is a square of 81 of the latest judicial trial for witchcraft in compartments, nine on each side, and the sum of England, viz., the Ryedale case. the numbers inserted being, either vertically or Towards the close of the last century, a large diagonally = 369. This face also contains the tumulus was opened on Gatherly Moor, about 3 names of the Spirits IIa3modai and Schedbar- miles from Richmond and upon the portion of schemoth, answering respectively to the “ Spirit Watling Street, called by the Romans Via of the moon,” which corresponds to the number Heleniana, a name now corrupted into Leeming 369 ; and to the “ Spirit of the Spirits of the Lane. What the other contents were, we are moon,” which is represented by 369x9 = not informed, hut within this mound, William 3 3 2 1 = the sum o f all the numbers in the Hawkesworth, Esq discovered two tablets of lead, magic square. each bearing on one side an incription together The second tablet, contains a somewhat different with several cabalistic signs; the reverses bearing inscription, viz.:—“ I did make this, (that) each a magic square, but with differing inscrip­ the (father) James Phillip John Phillip and all the tions. A good copper-plate engraving of these kin of Phillip and all the issue of them shall come remarkably interesting tablets—especially curious (presently) to utter beggary, and nothing joy (or) in the extreme rarity of such examples— prosper with them (in) Richmondshire.” The appeared shortly after their discovery, displaying two symbols on the first tablet, are here repeated both sides of each. A representation of them is and are more perfectly formed. A third symbol is also supplied by Dr. Whitaker in his “ History of added which indicates that the “ Spirit of the Richmondshire ” but this is as imperfect as the Moon” has again been invoked. Alltlie symbols on description he prints. A copy of the original this second plate are inverted, as compared with engraving having fallen into my hands, a few those given by Barrett in page 1 -41 of “ Talismanic years ago, was exhibited at a meeting of the Magic.” The obverse contains the same magic Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, when square of eighty-one numbers, and is signed my friend the late T. T. Wilkinson, F.R.A.S. “ J. Phillip,” a name which may likewise have furnished the following description, acknowledgi ng, been upon the missing corner of the first tablet. however that, so great an amount of recondite According to writers on magic, when all these matter was involved, as only a special student of signs and numbers arc engraven on lead, and the of the subject could adequately delineate. The aspects of the moon are malevolent, wherever first tablet contains the following words and signs, “ they shall be buried, it makes the place deeply cut in the metal, those which have suffered unfortunate and also the inhabitants thereabouts. from corrosion being enclosed in brackets: “ I do ...... It makes every man unfortunate, THE ARCHAEOLOGIST. 45 against whom it shall be directly done, making THE TRADERS’ TOKENS OP THE 18th him fly his place of abode, and even his country CENTURY. where it shall be buried.” — Barrett's Magnus. T T seems strange, when so many persons are And now, what was the result of this unchris­ collecting the traders’ tokens of the 17th tian anathema? Ruin certainly overtook the century, that more attention has not been attracted doomed family, but may not a mortal fear have to the far better issues, in many respects, struck greatly conduced thereto, in conjunction with during the 18th century. These tokens are well the chapter of accidents in human life ? Ur. worthy of notice among numismatists, some of Whitaker, in his account of Brignali, states that the specimens being splendidly executed, both on enquiry it was found that this diabolical with regard to design and striking ; while, as a charm had a curious confirmation in the fate of rule, the 17th century issue is very deficient in the Phillips family. Upon an application being both respects. Their origin may be traced made to John Charles Brooke, Esq., Somerset to the extraordinary increase of almost every Herald, he stated :— “ Prom the Visitation of the branch of industry in England about the latter County of York by William Flower Norroy, end of the 18th century, when the clamour for A.D. 1575, it appears that James Phillips was more money, and especially small change, became then living at Brignall, and entered his pedigree; so pressing that the Government decided on letting whence it also appears that he had five sons, the trading public coin copper money for them­ John, Richard, Henry, Christopher, and Thomas. selves ; and a short act was passed legalising such James was son of Henry Phillips, of Brignall, by a procedure. Agnes Aislaby his wife, and had an elder The first tokens struck were by the Anglesea brother Charles, which Charles had two sons, Mines Co., in 1787, and consisted of pence and John and Cuthbert. Now as James is styled ‘ of halfpence, o f which there are many varieties, Brignall,’ though the younger, the most probable some of great rarity. Some tokens became com­ account which can be given of the matter is that mon, and a very large number (mostly halfpence) he had supplanted John, the son o f Charles, in were in circulation when the Government super­ his birth-right; who drew down upon him and seded them with the new “ Soho” coinage in his family this secret execration. It is observa­ 1797. ble that Henry, the third son of James, is not in­ As soon as the tokens were suppressed, and cluded in the curse, of which the most likely their collection began to be a hobby, a number reason which can be assigned is that he was then of enterprising persons bought up the old dies, dead. But the anathema denounced against the and began striking “ rare varieties;” this, for family must have had its full effect, as these the most part, consisted in either altering the brothers and their children all died without inscription on the edge of the coin, or by striking issue.” Their estate, which seems to have been pieces from the obverse die of one token, and the considerable in Brignall, is now the property of reverse of another. These pseudo tokens are now Sir Robert Eden, Bart.— Hist, liiclimendshire, known among collectors as “ mules.” I. pp. li)5-(5. There were two tokens struck for Hull at the II . Ecuoyn Smith. period I mention, viz. :—

1 OIjv.— Mounted man to righ t; around, “ Gu- lielmus TertiusRexand below, “ m.d.c l. x .x .x .i.x .” liev.— Arms of Hull between 46 THE ARCHEOLOGIST.

two oak branches ; above, “ Hull Half­ An imperial crown, eagle, escutcheon, and des­ penny, 1791.” Edge, “ Payable at the criptive inscription are embossed in white, on a Warehouse of Jonathan Carton & Co.” rich deep azure ground. 2 Obv.— Same as last. Rev.— A ship, with two branches. Edge, “ Payable in Hull and Grenada.— A ll three values of this island are in London.” now watermarked with a large star in lieu of the The latter coin was the work of W ym & small one previously employed. The recently Kempson, to my mind the two best medallists of emitted shilling type is now employed for a fiscal their time. set, printed in yellow, and surcharged with a R. S. crown and the value in green ; one penny, three- halfpence, and twopence. PHILATELIC GOSSIP. Heligoland.— Simultaneously with this magazine HE debutants not chronicled during the last appeared a couple of stamps for this island, of an T two months are rather numerous, and allow entirely new type. On an oval centre lies a no room for preparatory remarks. The principal shield, in red, white, and green, surmounted by novelties follow in alphabetical order. a crown: name above; value in English currency Bolivia.— A singular postal interregnum is re­ on the left, in German on the righ t; ornamenta­ ported at this republic. In consequence of tion at angles; coloured impression on white ; forgeries, no letter is allowed to be prepaid with I perforated 12$, green, 2$ farthings, or 8 pfennig; stamps; and all those provided therewith are carmine, 2$ pence, or 20 pfennig. A misty idea seized by the authorities, and their vendors pro­ of equivalence appears to prevail in Heligoland. ceeded against at law. The new emission does According to the stamps of the island, 2 farthings not come out till next year. and a half (as above) answer to 3 pfennig; at Cape o f Good Hope.— A new value has been that rate, 2$ farthings quadrupled, or 2$d., would issued for this colony ; type like the current be equal to four times 3 pf., or 12 p f .; whereas penny ; one halfpenny, black, but printed in pale we see it represents 20 pf. Again, on the en­ ink, with the crown and CC watermark. velope, and adhesive of corresponding value, 10 Columbian States.— A 10 centavos of the 1860 pf. answer to l$d., as on the new comer. A set of New Grenada has been detected green similar discrepancy existed on the last set, still instead of the formal yellow hue. current; and this was never explained. We Fiji Isles.— In consequence of the exhaustion trust the disappearance of our Queen’s head on of the original stock, a provisional issue now the new issue does not portend a withdrawal of does duty for these isles. It is printed with the her sovereignty from the small but valuable same die as before, but on plain unwatermarked island. thick paper. The value is in pence, with the Java, (¡re.— For the use of the Dutch East V.R. surcharge. The threepenny has been ludia colonies has been recently issued, in ad­ turned into a twopenny, by the addition of the dition to the 2$ cent buff already chronicled, a latter denomination below the surcharge. They 2 cent, pale chocolate, and a 15 c. chiffre taxei are perforated 12$, ultramarine, 1 penny; yellow dark buff on a lighter ground. The 5c. chiffre green, 2 pence ; carmine, 6 pence. has been superannuated for some months. German Empire.— An official adhesive for re­ Mauritius.— A totally new series is expected turned letters has been sent us. It is a large for this island, in consequence of the adoption of broad oval, with festooned border stamped out. the Indian rupee and its component parts, for the THE ARCHÆOLOGIST. 47 monetary denomination of the stamps previous pearance, in the shape of a halfpenny value, on to this change, which will take some time for light brown, type of its fellows. preparation It is probable we shall get the Switzeiiand,— A contemporary gives informa­ current set provisionally surcharged. tion that “ in order to prevent the inquisitive New South Wales.— The post card hitherto from opening envelopes, the public are allowed to employed is superseded by another of like design, have the proper postage stamp impressed on the but rather smaller dimensions ; the inscription flap of envelopes ; but on condition of taking a likewise of reduced size. A thicker cardboard thousand specimens at once.” W e presume the than before is used. The colour of the stamp die is to be stamped as on the Turkish envelopes, remains the same. otherwise we do not see how the professed object There are also the following, but we have not is to be attained. space to describe them :— Charkov, Elisavetgrad, Turkey.— A Turkish post-card is in full vigour. Jeletz, Malmyche, Maloarchangelsk. Shadrinsk, It is large-sized, bearing inscriptions in Turkish Tver, Werchnie, Dnieprovsk, frc. and French ; no stamp affixed. Alexandria.— A stamp of smaller dimensions United States.— A centenary envelope is in is now used. It is still circular ; the value and preparation. The impressed stamp will bear an a pair of posthorns in colour on white in the escutcheon, with the words “ United States centre, and an inscription “ rural postage stamp Postage ” at top, on a ribbon; above, a postilion of the district of Alexandria ” white on colour on a groundwork of telegraphic poles and wires; on a circular frame. Blue, 10 kopecks. beneath this, a locomotive and post carriage; Arsamass.— The design of the stamp for this below the shield, on a ribbon, the value in words. place is modified. The corner numerals are The dates, 1776 and 1876, are respectively above larger; the star of the oval placed above instead and below the escutcheon. Value 3 cents. of below. The last four letters of the name are D r. V iner. left out, and some minor changes made. Bielosersk.— A variety of this hideously ugly LITERARY NEWS. stamp, has turned up on plain white paper ; the impressions, generally known, are on yellowish ISS Mathers’ poem, “ The Token of the paper. An interesting fact, bearing relation to M Silver Lily,” which has been running this stamp, and that of Mariupol, is mentioned since January in the pages of the Gentlemans in “ Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Magazine, will shortly appear as a six-shilling Russia, and Poland.” The belfries of Novgorod volume. The authoress contributes some pretty bear the cross, unaccompanied by a crescent, to verses to the June number of Belgravia. show that the Tartars were never conquered Copies of Mr. Laird-Clowes’ “ Meroë ” may be there. W here the Tartars conquered, and were obtained from Mr. D. Daniell, 74, Brompton afterwards vanquished, the crescent is seen, but Road, S.W ., post free for three shillings. surmounted by a cross (as in the stamp under Mr. Blackburn’s “ Academy Notes ” (Chatto consideration). & Windus) is a neatly got-up pamphlet, illus­ trated with about a hundred engravings of the St. Vincent’s.— The current set, including the principal contributions to this year’s exhibition at claret-colored shilling, is on thicker paper than Burlington House. We can recommend it to before. The yellow fourpenny remains alone visitors. unwatermarked. O f all the comic papers Funny Folks has now Sarawak.— The sixpenny is impressed on laid, by very far the largest circulation. We know the other values still continue on plain paper. one railway book-stall that gets rid of a thousand Shanghai.— We have seen an entirely new set copies weekly by its own unaided efforts. for this colony. The type is precisely that of the Londoners arc promised a new weekly review previously issued pair, on tinted paper, issued entitled The RculicaJ. Its price will be three­ about a twelvemonth since. The present set are pence, and its circulation presumably small. on plain white thick paper. Orange-yellow, 1 “ How to Dress like a Lady, by a Lady,” has candareen; carmine-pink, 3 c .; green, 6 c. ; recently been supplemented by a companion work blue, 9 c . ; brown, 12 c. called “ The Gentleman’s A rt of Dressing with Sierra Leone.— The threepenny adhesive of Economy.” Messrs. W am e are the publishers. this colony is now of a rich gold yellow. An The Poet's Magazine comes before the world addition to the current set has lately entered ap­ proclaiming that it supplies a long-felt want. 18 THE ARCHÆOLOGIST.

The first number, as we write, is still in nubibus, Thy heav’nlie Virtues Angels should rehers ; It is a theme too high for humane Vers. [look and we cannot, therefore, offer an opinion as to Hee that would know Thee right then, let him its literary and artistic merits ; but the prospectus Upon Thy rare incomparable Book, does not promise well. L eh-te. And read it or’e and or’e ; which if hee do Hee’l finde thee King, k Priest, and Prophet too ; And sadly see our loss ; and though in vain, With fruitless wishes call Thee back again. Nor shall oblivion sit upon Thy Hers, T r a d e r s ’ T o k e n s .— Surely it is time we pos­ Though there were neither Monument nor Vers. sessed another edition of Boyne’s “ Tokens of the Thy Suff’rings k Thy Death let no man name ; 17th Century !” I have published a few fresh It was Thy Glorie, but the Kingdom’s shame. J.H. types and varieties*, but I know gentlemen, some The above is copied from an old book entitled possessing series of tokens, some with long lists of “ The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestic in others which are wholly unrepresented in this work; Ills Solitudes and Sufferings.” Reprinted in and probably there is not a county in England or R.M. (Regis Memoriam?), An. Dom. 1648 (old Ireland either, which could not supply a fair con­ style). In this book there is the following :— tingent to an enlarged edition. With every rsepect Philip Smethnm His Book for thelaborious and painstaking author, he was far The Living Lord upon him look from infallible, andacurious instance of hisgratui- And with His favour and His grace tous assumptions has lately been brought under my Provide for him in heaven a place. notice by my friend (an old collector) Joseph September ye 11th, 1735. E. T. M. W a l k e r . Clarke, Esq., F.S.A., of The Kook, Saffron Walden. This gentleman writes :— 1“ Something (Ç u rrî). is yet to be done in tradesmen’s tokens, A dozen from a new locality, generally produces one or C u r io u s S w o r d .—I should be glad of any infor­ mation, as to the date, Ac., of a sword in my possession. two fresh types. Only a few days ago, ten were The handle is solid horn, the guard wrought iron, put into my hands, and I found two new ones: deeply fluted, blade 2 ft long, figured with flowers, Ac., one of a fresh place. I must be careful myself, and inscribed for I often find misappropriations in Boyne. Vinncere (sir) Inter arma | Pro christo autjmori silent leg I et pâtre (sir) One was brought rue from Quendon Street near es. here, which I find Boyne has placed to ‘ Quendon The first is repeated on both sides. The character is Street, London ’— in fact, invented a new street a very peculiar written one, and the orthography is for it, as there is not, and never was, any such also singular. W . G a i n . street iti London ! The new types are :— 1. JOHN ueninoton — Drapers’ Arms. Her.— IN HOLBRino. 1670—IiB. ( O neri/, Holbeach. Co. Coin.— 1 think the coin enquired about by J. Lincoln 7) O. Smith in last month’s number is one of the 2. m a r o r e t w h o r e l y -M (a sugar loaf) w. Iter.— many counterfeits that were in circulation about OK HVNDSDONE IN IIERKORDSHIRE. (A new place in Hertfordshire.) heufohdshtr within that time. I have seen thousands of the genuine n circle. halfpence of the series dating from 1771 to 1775, 1 have a token of Joseph Smith, of Thaxtcd in but never met witli one with k u x instead of 1:e x . this county— a man making candles, 1052, i.i.s. There is, however, one halfpenny of this type — and find this note concerning h im : “ Joseph that has a curious engraver’s blunder, and which Smith was a Quaker, and with other Quakers was is genuine, and very rare. It reads georivs, the taken from a meeting there on the 20th of the second o being omitted ; and is only of the date 11th month, 1600, and tor refusing the oaths was 1772. There is also a halfpenny of the previous committed to prison, and lay there above three reign that has a similar mistake, the R being left months.— H. Ecroyd Smith. out of the king’s name. It is dated 1730. As A n Ehtaph uroN K ing Charles.— another instance of engravers’ errors : a half­ So falls that statedie cedar : while it stood penny of William 111., dated 1701, on the obverse That was the onely glorio o f the wood : the three v’s in the inscription are crossed like

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Y ol. II. No. 13.] JUNE, 1876. ¡P r ic e 2 d .

CONTENTS. Page Seale o f Charges for Advertisements.

Types of Antique Gems...... 41 .C 8. d. Corporation Town Tokens issued in tlie 17th century ...... 43 insertion ...... 1 0 0 The “ Vendetta ” iu Y o rk s h ire ...... 43 Half do., ditto ...... 0 12 G Traders’ Tokens of the 18th century...... 45 Quarter do., ditto ...... 0 fi G Philatelic Gossip ...... 40 ditto ...... 0 3 G Literary N ews...... 47 Forty Words ditto ...... 0 2 0 N o t e s :— Twenty do. ditto ...... 0 1 3 Traders’ T o k e n s ...... 48 An Epitaph upon King Charles ...... 48 Notices of articles for disposal or exchange, 20 words Queries and Replies...... 48 or less, fid. ; Id. for every additional 4 words.

COINS. OLD COINS FOR SALE. ENGLISH REGAL, COLONIAL, ROMAN, & c 1 Fine American Collection (Catalogues, 3d.) / 1 OLD, Silver, Copper, Saxon. English, Roman, CHINA, ANTIQUES, Ac. Greek. Ac. Lists Free. BATTY. 10, Ca t h e d r a l Y a r d , Ma n c h ester . .1, VERITY, Karlsheaton, Dewsbury. THE GENEALOGIST, Edited by George W. Marshall, LL.D., F.S.A. T H K COIN AND STAMP JOURNAL, published A QUARTERLY MAGAZINE, containing hitherto monthly at Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.A. *■ unpublished Pedigrees, Extracts from Parish It is the only publication devoted to Numismatics Registers, Will-, Grants of Arms, Monumental Inscrip­ and Philately in the United States. Annual Sub­ tions, Heraldic and Typographical Memoranda. Origi­ scription, 73 cents. nal Documents throwing light upon the history of the n oblesse of the United Kingdom, and Notices of Books W . E. WINNER, Publisher, of interest to the Historian and Genealogist. runr.isui;i) by K ansas Cit y , M issou ri, U.S.A. GOLDING & LAWRENCE, 18, I vy Lane, St . P a u l’s, E.C. Price Is fid each part, or fis per annum. Parts I, 2. rn w o SHILLINGS.— Baum’s Swiss Fairy and 3 are now ready. I Organs.” Patented, Gold Medals awarded, These powerful and dulcet instruments produce the most STAMPS. charming melodies. Per parcel post, 24,36, or CO stamps S. TREASURY.per set-, 4d. ; Interior, per set, Is.; U * Post Office, per set, Is. 3d. ; Navy, per set, 2s. ; NE SHILLING.— 1“Baum'sGeneva Pocket Justice, 8 kinds, Is. ; War, 10 kinds, Is, Small pay­ Timepiece.” (Patent). Denotes correct time. ments can be sent in unused Great Britain postal OSize of a Half-Crown. In Elcctro-compo Metal. Per­cards or unused half-peuny stamps. Wholesale and fect balanced action. Steel hands, glass covered. Re­ Retail Lists free. liable in any climate. Free 14 stamps. E. F. GAMBS, kNF, SHILLING. — “ Baum’s Domestic F O R E IG N S T A M P I M P OUT L R, Printing Press.” —Prints Programmes and Bills ‘ 413, Soutu 4 & B St., St . Louib, Mo., U.S. of Fare, Cards, Labels, Laundry Lists, &c. Press, Type and Ink, Free 14 Stamps.—Jacques «g - WANTED TO EXCHANGE rare U.S. Baum & Co.. Kingston Works, Sparkbrook, Postage and Officials for Great Britain Id. Birmingham, Testimonials, Circulars. $'c.. 1840 black, 2s. blue, 5b. pink, and all kinds of va st fr e e . rare English Stamps.

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OW READY, part 10, Batty’s Catalogue of British Mr. WM. CHARLES COKE’S N and Colonial Copper Currency. Flscnp. quarto, BICYCLE AG-KNCY, 1/(1. 8, STATION ROAD, HERNE HILL, LONDON, S E. D. T. BATTY, 10, Cathedral Y akd, Manchester. Adjoining the Railway Station. P A T R O N IZE D by all the leading bicyclists. New •*- and second-hand bicycles disposed of at a com­ mission of 2s, per machine. UCK’S rare, fine, and interesting VIEWS OP The Bicyclist Monthly Magazine, with which is B YORKSHIRE TOWNS (1725-45), viz, York. incorporated Mr. W. C, Coke’s list of machines for I Hull, Leeds, Sheffield, Ripon. Scarbro’, and Richmond disposal, and full particulars o f the agency. 1 ¿d post (2 views), have been republished in a portable form, free. with full titles, in Mr. Ecroyd Smith’s Photographic Series. OSTAGE, Telegraph, and Fiscal Stumps Agents—G. W. Mortimer ic Co., Holderness Rd., Hull. of Hungary, are sold cheap by me, by Pthe 10, 100, and 1000 Stamps. LEOPOLD NEUMAN, MBERY’S SELF-INDEXING FILE, for enabling Waitznerstiasse, 34, B udapest. A Letters, Invoices, and other documents to be Brice List gratis— otters are agreeable. momentarily filed in strictly alphabetical order. The arrangement is unique, and entirely obviates the operations of endorsin'/, folding, or pasting, and per­ THE ARCHEOLOGIST mits papers to be withdrawn at pleasure. It facilitates references, economises space, reduces labour, and so 1\ I AY be had (by order) at till Railway Station systematises work that hundreds of papers can, by a ^ 1 Bookstalls, or of any Bookseller in the king­ simple contrivance {furnished with each set), be per­ dom ; annual subscription. 2s fid,, in advance. manently filed (in the form of a book) for future Advertisements must be sent in not later than the reference. Price list and particulars upon application 20th of the preceding month ; 10 per cent, may be to Clarkson & Co., Royal Chambers, Hull. deducted for two months’ insertions. Post Office orders to be made payable to ! I F. Pitm an, 20, "Paternoster Row, London, E. C., or Gf.o. W. Mortimer, lit, llolderness Road, Hull.

UCCATOS rAPYROGRAPll. 2000 Sold in Thir­ VOLUME I NOW READY, Z teen months. By this process 000 fac-simile In wrapper, price Is. 3d. Current or Back Numbers circulars, drawings, &c., may be printed in an ordi­ may be had of any of the following agents : nary copying press in an hour, upon any dry paper, London*.— H. Hawley. 21, Lamb's Conduit for a few farthings. Testimonials from five Govern­ Street. Holbom, W.C. ment officials, Ac. Specimens and price list to be hnd Alfred Sharpe, 18, Broad Street, from Clarkson & Co., Papyrogrcphic .Depot. Royal Bloomsbury. Chambers, Hull. J. H Lucy. 5.Comm Road.Rotberhithe, S.E Farmer & Sons, 1, Edwardes Terrace Kensington. W. Richards, 7. Tachbrook Street, COINS & TOKENS. Pimlico. S.W. C. W.Page, 102, High St.. Peckham.S.E "^U M ISM ATIC and other; BOOKS, COIN TRAYS Willing & Co., Railway Bookstalls. or CABINETS. Purchasers of the above are A berdeen.— W. Stevenson, R5, St, Nicholas Street. requested to write per post to S., 1, Paragon Terrace. Birmingham ,—J. Hundley, Paradise Street. Hackney, London. A. R. Thomas, l)9a, New Street. Foreign Dealers’ Lists invited. Bradford.— Thomas Brear. 17 and 19, Kirkgate. Cam bridge.— J. Dixon, 9, Market Street, Ha l if a x .— Wm, Cooke. Stationer. Hull.— Editor's Office, 13, Holderness Road, I — Curlill, St. John Street. ^RESTS ! CRESTS !! CRESTS ! ! : — Hancock, -pring Bank, P. Newton, Charles Street. TO COLLECTORS. L incoln.— Richard Cheney, 266, High Street. L iverpool.— S. Gresson, 50, S. Castle Street. 25 Beautiful Regimental Crests, for 7 Stamps. Manchester.—Jno. Heywood, Deansgate. i I 25 Beautiful Crests of H.M.’s Ships, 7 ,, D. T. Batty, 10, Cathedral Yard. 60 of either of the above, i 13 Margate.— John E. Thorne, 16, High Street. Every Crest is different. Sun derland—W. Hutchinson, 96, High Street West. YARMOUTH(GT)George Bond, Market Row. G e o r g e W . M o-r t im e k & C o ., Stamp and Crest; Dealers, Hull. London Offices.—20. Paternoster Row, F.C., and 8, Catherine Street, Strand, W.C. (The Otologist A M e d iu m o f I ntercommunication f o r t h e

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V ol. II. No. 13.] -TUNE, 1876. [P rice 2d.

2nd to the 4th century, for the coarse wheel-cut, TYPES OF ANTIQUE GEMS. abraxas, and gnostic gems which had then super­ From the Collection of the Rev. R. H. Cave. ( Continued.) seded the exquisite engravings of the classic age. For camei work, which is engraving in high TITHE stones which have been commonly or low relief upon stones of two or more strata, employed for the purpose of gem engraving the onyx and agate have been usually employed. have been the various kinds of quartz, or siliceous The reader will take notice that the modern shell earth, either in a crystallized or amorphous state. camei, with which the English people are mostly Calcedony, perhaps, has been more used than any acquainted as ornaments for brooches and brace­ other kind of stones; and then come, in their lets, are of very little account or value as com­ successive order for rareness, the garnet, the pared with work upon the hard stones used for amethyst, lapislázuli, the jacynth, the emerald, this purpose from the very earliest times. Shell the sapphire. Engravings upon the last two camei are in fact simply scraped with a knife precious stones are of exceeding rarity, so that upon the soft yielding surface of the Indian in fact it has been doubted by some collectors conch. Antique engravings upon stones were whether any antique engravings upon the emerald done with a drill and diamond dust, and with or sapphire are to be met with at all. A few, the diamond point to cut out the minute details however, are of undoubted authenticity. The upon both intaglie and camei. Modern work present writer has a horse regardant cut upon a upon stones— mostly used now for crests and large emerald of poor quality, which is Asiatic- coats o f arms— is done with a wheel and lathe, Greek work ; and of which he purposes to give employing diamond dust also. But the art is an engraving by and by. The sard, so called almost lost: and except a few valueless camei, from the Persian “ sored,” yellow, and the engraved in Italy for studs and shirt pins, nothing carneliati, usually have upon them the best is done in this way at present; and, in fact, if antique work. The root of emerald, or plasma, the art were revived to-morrow, the time of a pretty green translucent stone, bears commonly skilled workmen is so valuable now-a-days, that rough work of a late period. The jaspers, red the gems would cost even more than good antique and green, are varieties of ealcedony mixed with work can be bought for. earths, which render them opaque. These stones The engravings we give this month are of the have all been mainly used by the ancients for earliest dawn of the art in Babylonia, Persia, intaglie. They were much employed from the and Etruria, respectively. These are, to speak 42 THE ARCHAEOLOGIST. roughly, about from two to three thousand years Many, indeed, are the myths of the Greek and old. They are exceedingly ru d e: worked almost Roman poets concerning him. He had his resi­ entirely with the drill; the drill being a rounded dence on Mount Helicon, where, by striking the steel point, “ thrilled” with a small bow held in earth with his hoof, he instantly raised a fountain the hand— such as jewellers use at the present of water, called Hippocrene, or the Horses time for drilling holes in watch work. This Spring. On the back of Pegasus, Bellerophon drill, with diamond powder and oil, produced conquered the Chimoera; and later on, Perseus hollows in the hardest stones, and lines, which rescued Andromache. It is no classical engraving, formed such rude figures as those of the en­ however, we have here, but a gravings here given. Babylonian seal, in white trans­ parent calcedony, of an age No. 1 is a Persian cone on a before the foundation of either beautiful sapphirine calcedony ; Athens or of Rome. In fact, the the cone obtuse, cut with eight myth itself, like other classical stories, is trace­ sides, so as to make the signet able up to the fountain head of all European an octagon. Probably this octa­ fables; to that great Indian source from which gon shape was a form replete Greece, and Rome, Germany, and England, and with mystic virtues amongst the Medes and indeed, all modern Europe has got its language Persians; as at the cinque-cento period, and with and its legends. On either side of Pegasus are the Rosicrucians later on. In fact, this octa­ the sun and moon, giving an astrological symbolism gonal cone is much the same shape as that of the to the gem ; and two letters are cut above, in an Lingam in India at the present day ; and its archaic Parthian character. The signet itself is hidden meaning was probably much the same: a hemispherical one, this being the form which the Lingam, being a symbol of the generative the Babylonian seal usually took, as the cylinder pow er; a type of the penetrating ray of the sun: was the form of the Assyrians, and the cone that and this was, of course, an idea which would of the Persians. greatly recommend the symbol to a fire worship­ The Etruscans, who give us the next example ping race, such as the Persians were. Mr. King of a signet, were a people about whom historians tells us that these octagonal seals may be assigned have been at odds on many important points. What for the most part, to the times o f the first was their origin ? W hat their language ? W hat Ninevitish and Persian Monarchies. They have their skill in the arts ? These are subjects upon a small hole drilled through the upper part, to which even well instructed people are divided. admit a string for hanging them about the neck; Upon the whole, it seems most probable that they the regular mode in those days of carrying the came from an Assyrian stock— Asiatic Tyrrheni. signet. At the base of the stone, of which an They seem to have arrived in Italy as colonists engraving is given, is a rudely cut intaglio, done from Lydia, and to have brought with them the entirely with the drill, of a mobed, or priest, art of gem engraving from their Assyrian fore­ sacrificing at a fire altar, with the crescent moon fathers, They were essentially an artistic race ; above. This seal was probably the signet of one luxurious, effeminate, and sensual. But they of the magi of the time of “ Darius, the Persian.’* carried into Italy a branch of art which, both with W e usually associate the legend of Pegasus, or them and with the Greeks, blossomed into a the winged horse, with purely classical times. magnificence that has never been surpassed. THE ARCHAEOLOGIST. 43 Their gem engraving, beginning with the rude would be of interest to some of your readers. intaglie engraved upon the base of scarubei with As much has been written on the history of these the drill,grew into the perfection of the engraver’s tokens, and to save repetition, I intend to give, art, wrought with the greatest refinement of under each County, a list of the works bearing which that art is capable. Greek intaglio are on the subject, since Boyne’s general list pub­ generally found in the stoue called the golden or lished in 1858. yellow sard. But the Etruscans seldom or never I might mention that the circulation of these made use of this gem. The Etruscan scarabei tokens was quite illegal, though for twenty-five in my own cabinet are almost always engraved years winked at by the Government, and were upon the agate onyx, cut transversely, so as to eventually suppressed; but not without a struggle, display the band across the stone ; and a very for they were very profitable to the issuers. It beautiful stone it is— this oriental onyx. The is said that one unfortunate city lost its charter type herewith given is one o f the most archaic. in consequence; but as this has, however, been It represents adrunkenFaunbolding denied, and the said city having only recently a wineskin, and is entirely wrought been in hot water, I will not add to her with the drill upon a Camel ian shame by naming her and the sins of 200 years scarabceus. But the reader who wishes to see the ago. perfection of Etruscan art must visit the British B edfordshire . Museum, and examine carefrrlly the silver BIGGLESWADE. mirrors— especially those of the Castellani col­ ] Obv.-----A. BIG ILS WORTH. HALF. PENY,----A C r ip p le on crutches. lection— upon which this strange race seem to Rev.— c i i a i n g d . b t . t h e . o v e r s e e r s .— A spin­ have lavished all the best skill that they could ning wheel. bring to bear upon this department of the fine This token is heart-shape. arts. W e shall see in another article that they LANGFORD. could do something better in gem engraving than 2 Obv.--- CHANGED. BY. V K- OVERSEERS. OF. LANG FORD. Rev.— LANGFORD. IN. Y K- COVNTY. OF. BED. HALFE. the type given above. PENNY. 16G8. I shall be glad of any notes referring to CORPORATION TOWN-TOKENS, ISSUED above; and also to add 2 to my collection. IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. No list since Boyne’s has been written on this County. F you have space in your interesting paper I H enry Christie. I should like to give, from time to time, a list To be continued. of those cities and towns that struck halfpenny and farthing tokens in their corporate or official "THE VENDETTA" IN YORKSHIRE. capacity. Boyne in his valuable work has enume­ rated most of them, but only in conjunction with ABALISTIC incantation and denunciation those tokens issued by tradesmen ; the latter are Cprobably never abounded to any great extent very numerous, and to give a complete list of in Britain, after the era of Pagan Saxendom, them is impossible, in consequence of new when a witchcraft of Scandinavian origin, wholly varieties constantly being found in old ruins and distinct from the scientific sorcery derived from excavations. I think, therefore, a separate list the Arabians in Spain, and professing to hold of the Town-pieces, as they are commonly called, direct communiction with fiends, was introduced 44 THE ARCHEOLOGIST. here and known as the old augury. W e are told make this that James Phillip John Phillip his that besides the runes of sepulchral monuments, son Christopher PhillipandThomas Phillip his(son) several other kinds were contemporaneously in shall flee Riehmondshirc and nothing (prosper) use ; one of these being denominated mai-runes, with any of them (in) Richmondshire.” t the or the bad, being applied to the brooding over, foot of same side of this plate, are engraved the and the vindictive revenge of injuries real or cabalistic signs of “ The Spirit of the Spirits of supposed. m o o n the last symbol being left imperfect by A remarkable instance of astrological necromancy the persons who manufactured the spell. On and anathema is connected with our county, which the obverse there is “ the magic square of the also I fear bears the discredit of being the scene moon in her compass.” It is a square of 81 of the latest judicial trial for witchcraft in compartments, nine on each side, and the sum of England, viz., the Ryedale case. the numbers inserted being, either vertically or Towards the close of the last century, a large diagonally = 809, This face also contains the tumulus was opened on Gatherly Moor, about o names of the Spirits llasmodai and Sehedbar- miles from Richmond and upon the portion of sehemoth, answering respectively to the “ Spirit Watling Street, called by the Romans Via of the moon,” which corresponds to the number Ileleniana, a name now corrupted into Lceming 369 ; and to the “ Spirit of the Spirits of the Lane. What the other contents were, we are moon,” which is represented by 8 6 9 x 9 = not informed, but within this mound, William 3 3 2 1 = the sum o f all the numbers in the Hawkesworth, Esq discovered two tablets of lead, magic square. each bearing on one side an incription together The second tablet, contains a somewhat different with several cabalistic signs; the reverses bearing inscription, viz. :—“ I did make this, (that) each a magic square, but with differing inscrip­ the (father) James Phillip John Phillip and all the tions. A good copper-plate engraving of these kin of Phillip and all the issue of them shall come remarkably interesting tablets— especially curious (presently) to utter beggary, and nothing joy (or) iu the extreme rarity of such examples— prosper with them (in) lUchmoudsliire.” The appeared shortly after their discovery, displaying two symbols on the first tablet, are here repeated both sides of each. A representation of them is and are more perfectly formed. A third symbol is also supplied by Dr. Whitaker in his “ History of added which indicates that the “ Spirit of the Richmondshire ” but this is as imperfect as the Moon” has again been invoked. All the symbols on description he prints. A copy of the original this second plate are inverted, as compared with engraving having fallen into my hands, a few those given by Barrett in page 1 1 1 of “ Talismanic years ago, was exhibited at a meeting of the Magic. ’ The obverse contains the same magic Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, when square of eighty-one numbers, and is signed my friend the late T. T. Wilkinson, P.R.A.S. “ J. Phillip,” a name which may likewise have furnished the following description, acknowledging, been upon the missing corner of the first tablet. however that, so great an amount of recondite According to writers on magic, when all these matter was involved, as only a special student of signs and numbers are engraven on lead, and the of the subject could adequately delineate. The aspects of the moon are malevolent, wherever first tablet contains the following words and signs, “ they shall be buried, it makes the place deeply cut in the metal, those which have suffered unfortunate and also the inhabitants thereabouts. from corrosion being enclosed in brackets: “ I do • • * . . It makes every man unfortunate, THE ARCHAEOLOGIST. 45 against whom it shall be directly done, making THE TRADERS’ TOKENS OF THE 18 th him fly his place of abode, and even his country CENTURY. where it shall be buried.”— Barrett's Magnus. i T seems strange, when so many persons are Anil now, what was the result of this unchris­ collecting the traders’ tokens of the 17th tian anathema? Ruin certainly overtook the century, that more attention has not been attracted doomed family, but may not a mortal fear have to the far better issues, in many respects, struck greatly conduced thereto, in conjunction with during the 18th century. These tokens are well the chapter of accidents in human life? Ur. worthy of notice among numismatists, some of Whitaker, in his account of Brignall, states that the specimens being splendidly executed, both on enquiry it was found that this diabolical with regard to design and striking ; while, as a charm had a curious confirmation in the fate of rule, the 17th century issue is very deficient in the Phillips family. Upon an application being both respects. Their origin may be traced made to John Charles Brooke, Esq., Somerset to the extraordinary increase of almost every Herald, he stated :—“ From the Visitation of the branch of industry in England about the latter County of York by William Flower iN’orroy, end of the 18th century, when the clamour for A.D. 1575, it appears that James Phillips was more money, and especially small change, became then living at Brignall, and entered his pedigree; so pressing that the Government decided on letting whence it also appears that he had five sons, the trading public coin copper money for them­ John, Richard, Henry, Christopher, and Thomas. selves ; and a short act was passed legalising such James was son of Henry Phillips, of Brignall, by a procedure. Agnes Aislaby his wife, and had an elder The first tokens struck were by the Anglesea brother Charles, which Charles had two sons, Mines Co., in 1787, and consisted of pence and John and Cuthbert. Now as James is styled * of halfpence, of which there are many varieties, Brignall,’ though the younger, the most probable some o f great rarity. Some tokens became com­ account which can be given of the matter is that mon, and a very large number (mostly halfpence) he had supplanted John, the son o f Charles, in were in circulation when the Government super­ his birth-right; who drew down upon him and seded them with the new “ Soho” coinage in his family this secret execration. It is observa­ 1797. ble that Henry, the third son of James, is not in­ As soon as the tokens were suppressed, and cluded in the curse, of which the most likely their collection began to be a hobby, a number reason which can be assigned is that lie was then of enterprising persons bought up the old dies, dead. But the anathema denounced against the and began striking “ rare varieties;” this, for family must have had its full effect, as these the most part, consisted in either altering the brothers and their children all died without inscription on the edge of the coin, or by striking issue.” Their estate, which seems to have been pieces from the obverse die of one token, and the considerable in Brignall, is now the property of reverse of another. These pseudo tokens are now Sir Robert Eden, Bart,— Hist, liichmendshire, known among collectors as “ mules.” 1. pp. 11)5—6. There were two tokens struck for Hull at the II. Ecuotd Smith. period I mention, viz,:— 1 Obv.— Mounted man to right; around, “ Gu- lielmus Tertiusliexand below, “ M.n.c l. x .x .x . i . x . ” Rev.— Arms of Hull between 46 THE ARCHEOLOGIST.

two oak branches ; above, “ Hull Half­ An imperial crown, eagle, escutcheon, and des­ penny, 1791.” Edge, “ Payable at the criptive inscription are embossed in white, on a Warehouse of Jonathan Garton & Co.” rich deep azure ground. 2 Obv.— Same as last. Rev.— A ship, with two branches. Edge, “ Payable in Hull and Grenada.—-All three values of this island arc in London.” now watermarked with a large star in lieu of the The latter coin was the work of Wym & small one previously employed. The recently Kempson, to my mind the two best medallists of emitted shilling type is now employed for a fiscal their time. set, printed in yellow, and surcharged with a R. S. crown and the value in green; one penny, three- halfpence, and twopence. PHILATELIC GOSSIP. Heligoland.— Simultaneously with thismagazine m H E de'butants not chronicled during the last appeared a couple of stamps for this island, of an -L two months are rather numerous, and allow entirely now type. On an oval centre lies a no room for preparatory remarks. The principal shield, in red, white, and green, surmounted by novelties follow in alphabetical order. a crown: name above; value in English currency Bolivia.— A singular postal interregnum is re­ on the left, in German on the righ t; ornamenta­ ported at this republic. In consequence of tion at angles; coloured impression on white ; forgeries, no letter is allowed to be prepaid with perforated 12^, green, 2^ farthings, or 3 pfennig; stamps; and all those provided therewith are carmine, 2 J pence, or 20 pfennig. A misty idea seized by the authorities, and their vendors pro­ of equivalence appears to prevail in Heligoland. ceeded against at law. The new emission does According to the stamps of the island, 2 farthings not come out till next year. and a half (as above) answer to 3 pfennig; at Cape o f Good Hope.— A new value has been that rate, 2^ farthings quadrupled, or 2 id., would issued for this colony ; type like the current be equal to four times 3 pf., or 12 pf. ; whereas penny ; one halfpenny, black, but printed in pale we see it represents 20 pf. Again, on the en­ ink, with the crown and CC watermark. velope, and adhesive of corresponding value, 10 Columbian States.— A 10 centavos of the I860 pf. answer to l^d., as on the new comer. A set of New Grenada has been detected green similar discrepancy existed on the last set, still instead of the formal yellow hue. current; and this was never explained. We Fiji hies.— In consequence of the exhaustion t rust the disappearance of our Queen’s head on of the original stock, a provisional issue now the new issue does not portend a withdrawal of does duty for these isles. It is printed with the her sovereignty from the small but valuable same die as before, but on plain unwatermarked island. thick paper. The value is in pence, with the Jam, fyc.— For the use of the Dutch East V .ll, surcharge. The threepenny has been India colonies has been recently issued, in ad­ turned into a twopenny, by the addition of the dition to the 2jt cent buff already chronicled, a latter denomination below the surcharge. They 2 cent, pale chocolate, and aloe, chiffre taxc> are perforated 12£, ultramarine, 1 penny; yellow dark buff on a lighter ground. The 5c. chiffre green, 2 pence; carmine, 6 pence. has been superannuated for some months. German Empire.— An official adhesive for re­ Mauritius.— A totally new* series is expected turned letters lias been sent us. It is a large for this island, in consequence of the adoption of broad oval, with festooned border stamped out. the Indian rupee and its component parts, for the THE ÀRCHÆOLOGIST. 47 monetary denomination of the stamps previous pearance, in the shape of a halfpenny value, on to this change, which will take some time for light brown, type of its fellows. preparation It is probable we shall get the Switzerland.— A contemporary gives informa­ current set provisionally surcharged. tion that “ in order to prevent the inquisitive New South Wales,— The post card hitherto from opening envelopes, the public are allowed to employed is superseded by another of like design, have the proper postage stamp impressed on the but rather smaller dimensions ; the inscription flap of envelopes ; but on condition o f taking a likewise of reduced size. A thicker cardboard thousand specimens at once.” W e presume the than before is used. The colour of the stamp die is to be stamped as on the Turkish envelopes, remains the same. otherwise we do not see how the professed object There are also the following, but we have not is to be attained, space to describe them :— Charkov, Elisavetgrad, Turkey.— A Turkish post-card is in full vigour. Jeletz, Malmyche, Mdloarckangelsk. Shadrinsk, It is large-sized, bearing inscriptions in Turkish Tver, Werchnie, Dnieprovsk, frc. and French ; no stamp affixed. Alexandria.— A stamp of smaller dimensions United States.— A centenary envelope is in is now used. It is still circular ; the value and preparation. The impressed stamp will bear an a pair of posthorns in colour on white in the escutcheon, with the words “ United States centre, and an inscription “ rural postage stamp Postage ” at top, on a ribbon ; above, a postilion of the district of Alexandria ” white on colour on a groundwork of telegraphic poles and wires; on a circular frame. Blue, 10 kopecks. beneath this, a locomotive and post carriage ; Arsamass.— The design of the stamp for this below the shield, on a ribbon, the value in words. place is modified. The corner numerals are The dates, 1776 and 1876, are respectively above larger ; the star of the oval placed above instead and below the escutcheon. Value 3 cents. of below. The last four letters of the name are Dit. V inei:. left out, and some minor changes made. Bielosersk.— A variety of this hideously ugly LITERARY NEWS. stamp, has turned up on plain white paper ; the impressions, generally known, are on yellowish ISS Mathers’ poem, “ The Token of the paper. An interesting fact, bearing relation to M Silver Lily,” which has been running this stamp, and that of Mariupol, is mentioned since January in the pages of the Gentleman’s in “ Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Magazine, will shortly appear as a six-shiliing Russia, and Poland.” The belfries of Novgorod volume. The authoress contributes some pretty bear the cross, unaccompanied by a crescent, to verses to the June number of Belgravia. show that the Tartars were never conquered Copies of Mr. Laird-Clowes’ “ Meroe ” may be there. Where the Tartars conquered, and were obtained from Mr. D. Daniell, 74, Brompton afterwards vanquished, the crescent is seen, but Road, S.W ., post free for three shillings, surmounted by a cross (as in the stamp under Mr. Blackburn’s “ Academy Notes” (Chatto consideration). & Windus) is a neatly got-up pamphlet, illus­ trated with about a hundred engravings of the St. Vincent's.— The current set, including the principal contributions to this year’s exhibition at claret-colored shilling, is on thicker paper than Burlington House. We can recommend it to before. The yellow fourpenny remains alone visitors. unwatermarked. Of all the comic papers Funny Folks has now Sarawak.— The sixpenny is impressed on laid, by very far the largest circulation. We know the other values still continue on plain paper. one railway book-stall that gets rid of a thousand Shanghai.— We have seen an entirely new set copies weekly by its own unaided efforts. for this colony. The type is precisely that of the Londoners are promised a new weekly review previously issued pair, on tinted paper, issued entitled The Ila/lical. Its price will be three­ about a twelvemonth since. The present set are pence, and its circulation presumably small. on plain white thick paper. Orange-yellow, 1 “ How to Dress like a Lady, by a Lady,” has candareen ; carmine-pink, 3 c . ; green, 6 c. ; recently been supplemented by a companion work blue, 9 c . ; brown, 12 c. called “ The Gentleman’s A rt of Dressing with Sieira Leone.— The threepenny adhesive of Economy.” Messrs. W ame are the publishers. this colony is now of a rich gold yellow. An The Poet's Magazine comes before the world addition to the current set has lately entered ap­ proclaiming that it supplies a long-felt want. 48 THE ARCHAEOLOGIST.

The first number, as we write, is still in nubibua, Thy heav’nlie Virtues Angels should rehers ; It is a theme too high for humane Vers. [look and we cannot, therefore, offer an opinion as to Hee that would know Thee right then, let him its literary and artistic merits ; but the prospectus Upon Thy rare incomparable Book, does not promise well. L eh-te. And read it or’e and or’e ; which if hee do HeeT finde thee King, Sc Priest, and Prophet too ; And sadly see cur loss ; and though in vain, With fruitless wishes call Thee back again. Nor shall oblivion sit upon Thy Hers, T raders’ T okens.— Surely it is time we pos­ Though there were neither Monument nor Vers. sessed another edition of Boyne’s “ Tokens of the Thy Suff'rings Sc Thy Death let no man name ; 17th Century 1” I have published a few fresh It was Thy Glorie, but the Kingdom’s shame. J.H. types and varieties*, but I know gentlemen, some The above is copied from an old book entitled possessing series of tokens, some with long lists of “ The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in others which are wholly unrepresented in this work; His Solitudes and Sufferings.” Reprinted in and probably there is not a county in England or R.M. (Regis Memoriam?), An. Dom. 1648 (old Ireland either, which could not supply a fair con­ style). In this book there is the following :— tingent to an enlarged edition. With every rsepeet Philip Smetham His Book for the laborious and painstakingauthor,he was far The Living Lord upon him look from infallible, andacurious instance of liisgratui- And with His favour and His grace tous assumptions has lately been brought under my Provide for him in heaven a place. notice by my friend (an old collector) Joseph September ye 11th, 1735. E. T . M. W a l k e r . Clarke, Esq., F.S.A., of The Koos, Saffron Walden. This gentleman writes :— “ Something is yet to be done in tradesmen’s tokens. A dozen (flU M J. from a new locality, generally produces ono or Curious Sword.—I should be glad of any infor­ mation, as to the date, &c., of a sword in my possession. two fresh types. Only a few days ago, ten were The handle is solid horn, the guard wrought iron, put into my hands, and I found two new ones: deeply fluted, blade 2 ft long, figured with flowers, See., one of a fresh ¡dace. I must be careful myself, and inscribed for I often find misappropriations in Boyne. Vinncere >(>) Inter arma Pro christo autjmori silent leg et patre (sic) One was brought mo from Quendon Street near here, which I find Boyne has placed to ‘ Quendon The first is repeated on both sides. The character is Street, London ’— in fact, invented a new street a very peculiar written one, and the orthography is for it, as there is not, and never was, any such also singular. W. Gain . street in London ! The new types are :— 1. JOHN BENINGTON — Drapers’ Arms Rev*—IN holbridg. 1670—I-Jb. {Query, Holbeach, Co. Coin.— I think the coin enquired about by J. Lincoln ?) O. Smith in last month’s number is one of the 2. MARGRET whorely—M (a sugar loaf) w. Met.— many counterfeits that were in circulation about OE HVNnSDONE IN HEREORDSHIRE. (A new place in Hertfordshire.) herfordshir within that time. I have seen thousands of the genuine a circle, halfpence of the series dating from 1771 to 1775, 1 have a token of Joseph Smith, of Tha.xtcd in but never met with one with r u x instead of i: e x . this county— a man making candles, 1652, i .i.s. There is, however, one halfpenny of this type — and find this note concerning him : “ Joseph that has a curious engraver’s blunder, and which Smith was a Quaker, and with other Quakers was is genuine, and very rare. It reads georivs, the taken from a meeting there on the 20th of the second g being omitted ; and is only of the date 11th month, 1660, and for refusing the caths was 1772. There is also a halfpenny of the previous committed to prison, and lay there above three reign that has a similar mistake, the R being left months.— H. E croyd Smith. out of the king’s name. It ¡3 dated 1730. As A n E pitaph upon K ing Charles.— another instance of engravers’ errors; a half­ So falls that statelie cedar : while it stood penny of William III,, dated 1701, on the obverse That was the onely glorie of the wood : the three v’s in the inscription are crossed like Great Charts, thou earthlie God, Celestial Man, a ’ s, and on the the reverse the two a ’ s in Whose life, like other’s, though it were a span ; Yet in that span was comprehended more “ Britannia ” arc left uncrossed. If Mr. Smith Then Earth hath waters, or the Ocean shore. will send me his coin for inspection, I think I C h r i s t i e , * rifle “ Transactions Historic Society, Lancashire and Cheshire;" could tell him if it is genuine.—H. also “ Journal of Liverpool N umismatic Society.” 88, Davenant Road, Upper Holloway, N. THE H. ECROYD SMITH’S ILLUSTRATIONS OK YORKSHIRE Allgemeiner ^ßrirfmarhen Vergei:. IN THE LAST CENTURY. SEMI-MONTHLY Journal, devoted only IEWS of Yorkshire in the last century, chiefly to Stamp Collecting. Appears since 1871, Y from rare originals, and nil more or less A valuable and interesting. They are photographed by the 1st and 15tli of every month. No. 109 now one of the beat artists in the country and handsomely ready. Annual subscription abroad (24 copies) mounted ; but may be had unmounted for Scrap Post'Free, -Is. Single copies 2£d. Books, Ac., on application. 2/0 each,

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HALIFAX GIBBET AND GIBBET LAW. from each to appear before him on a certain day, By JOHN RYLEY ROBINSON. LL.D.: F.R.G S. to enquire into the truth of the charge. At the

r IIHE Gibbet Law of Halifax existed from time trial, the accuser and accused were confronted. immemorial, being probably co-oval with the If the accused was acquitted, he was immediately town itself, having been traced to as early a date liberated ; if condemned he was executed at once; as 1280 ; existing at the time when the manor of immediately, if that was the principal market day ; Wakefield (containing the parish of Halifax) was if not, he was placed in the Stocks, with the bestowed on the Earl of Warren, and continuing stolen goods on his back, except they were too till about two hundred years ago. Records of heavy, when they were laid in front of the stocks executions as late as 1650 exist, when they ceased that all might see. on intimation that if they were repeated the bailiff The execution always took place on the great would be called to public account therefore. market day, in order to strike the more terror “ The inhabitants of the Forest of Hardwick throughout the district, aud was performed by (which wasco-extensive with the parish of Halifax) means of an instrument called a Gibbet, which had the custom, that if a felon was taken within was raised upon a platform four feet high, and their liberty, with goods stolen out or within the thirteen feet square, faced on every side with liberty of the said forest, either Hand-habend, stone, and ascended by a flight of steps. In the Back-berand, or Confessand, of the value of middle o f this platform was placed two upright thirteenpence-halfpenny, he should, after three pieces of timber, fifteen feet high, joined at the markets or meeting days within the town of top by a transverse beam. Within these was a Halifax next after such apprehension, be square block of wood, four feet and a half long, tried, and being condemned, bo taken to the which moved up and down by means of grooves Gibbet, and have his head cut off from his body.” made for that purpose, to the lower part of which He was however, to be publicly and deliberately was fastened an iron axe, which weighed seven tried by a jury, composed of frith-burghers of the pounds twelve ounceB. This axe thus fixed was said liberty. The proof was this, on arrest he was drawn up by means of a cord and pulley. A t brought hefore the Lord Bailiff, who lived at the end of the cord was a pin, fixed to the block, Halifax, kept the jail, had the custody of the axe, which kept it suspended till the moment of and was the legal executioner. He issued his execution, when the culprit’s head being placed summons to the constables of the four townships on the block, the pin was withdrawn, and hi* •f the »aid liberty, requiring four frith-burgher* haad instantly »«vsrad from hi* body. »0 THE ARCHAEOLOGIST.

The Earl of Morton, passing through Halifax Many suppose, and with a fair show of reason, about the middle of the sixteenth century, that the popular idea of “ Thirteenpence-half- witnessed one of these executions, ordered a model psnny, a hangman’s wage,” took its origin from to be made of the Gibbet, and, on his return to this law, and that was the amount paid to the Scotland, of which he was Regent, Had a similar executioner for his gratuity. instrument constructed, which, remaining long During a lawless state of society, such prompt unused, was called “ The Maiden; ” but, on the punishment doubtless answered well. Nor would third ofJutie, 1581, he was himself executed by it. justice be often perverted. There were no niceties The identical instrument is now, I believe, in the of evidence to balance, or doubtful points to museum of our Society of Antiquaries, Edinburgh. clear; the whole duty of the court consisting in The number executed by the Halifax Gibbet identifying the articles stolen, ascertaining t!,e: r from 1511 to 1850, was forty-nine. This, value, and proving that they were either H am - combined with the strict discipline of the Hull habend, that is, in his hand when taken ; Back- constables, doubtless gave rise to the Thieves’ berand,, that is, on his back ; or Con/essand, that and Vagabonds’ Prayer,— “ From Hull, Hell, and is, that he confessed to the theft. Halifax, good Lord deliver us ? ”

H a l i f a x G i b b e t ,

L is t o f P e r s o n s B e h e a d e d a t H a l i f a x . John Atkinson, Nicholas Frear, Richard Garnet, were headed at Halifax, the 9th day of January, 1572. Richard Bentley, de Sowerby. decollat 20 die Mnrtii, 1541. Quidem Ex trau inn Capitalem subiit senten­ Richard Stopforthe, was headed the 19th May. 1574, tial» 1 o die Jan., 1542. James Smith, de Sowcrby. was headed at Halifax, the 12th Feby., 1574. Job es Brygg, Capellanie do Heptonstal. Capitalem subiit sententiam, 16 o Septembris, 1544, Henry Hunt, was headed at Halifax, the 3rd o f No­ vember, 1576. Job es Ecoppe. de Eland. Capitalem subiit sententiam Robert Bayrstall, alias Ferneysydc, was headed the 6th Ultimo die Martii, 1545, Of Feby., 1576. Thomas Waite, de Halifax. Capitalem subiit senten- John Dicconsone, de Bradford, was headed the 6th tiam, and Fait Sepultus. 5 o die Docemb, 1545, January. 1578. Richard Sharpe.de Northm., John Learoyd, de Northm. John Waters was headed at Halifax, March 16, 1578. beheaded the 5th day of March, 1568, for a robbery Bryan Gassone. was headed at Halifax, the 15th of done in Lancashire. October, 1580. William Cokekere. was beaded 9th day of October, John Appleyard, de Halifax, was headed the 19th of 1572. February, 1581. THE ARCHÆ0L0GI8T. 51 John Sladen was headed at Halifax, the 7th of I February, 1582. ROMAN COINS; Arthur Firthe was headed the 17th of Jan., 1585. By W. H .T aylor. John Duckworth was headed at Halifax, the 4th of October, 1586. Chapter VIII.— Colonial Coins. Nicholas Hewett, de Northourarn, Thomas Masone, vagans, were headed the 27th of May, 1587. EFORE passing to the consideration of the Thomas Roberts, de Halifax, was beheaded the 13th of July, 1588. B Imperial series, it will be well to say a few Robert Wilson, de Halifax, was beheaded the 5th of words about the coins of the Roman Colonies. April, 1589. Most of them belong to the Augustan age; Decollatus Petrus Crabtrye, Sorby, 21 December. 1591. Decollatus Barnard Sutcliffe, Northowram, 6th of but coins continued to be struck in the colonies January, 1691. until the reign of Gallienus, when they ceased to Abraham Stancliffe, Halifax, capite truncatus, Sep­ tember 23, 1602. be circulated. The types have generally the Ux Peter Harison, Bradford, decoll February 22,1602. letters col. for colonia, and may be classified into Christopher Cosin, decollatus, December 29, 1610, Thomas Briggs, decollatus, April 10, 1611. two divisions, agricultural, and military. George Fairbanks, perditissimus nebulo vulgo vocatus The former class is usually distinguished by the Skoggin, ob nequitiam. Anna ejusdem Georg» Filia spuria, ambo meritissime ob surtum mani- figure of a man driving a plough drawn by oxen; fcatum decollati December 23, 1623. and the latter by military insignia. John Lacy, perditissimus nebulo & latro, decollatus, January 29, 1625. Spain, which contained a large number of Edmund Ogden, decollatus April 8, 1624. Homan settlements, has furnished many examples Richard Midgly of Midgly, decollatus April 13, 1624. of this colonial currency. Amongst the Spanish Ux Johan Wilson, decollata July 5, 1627. Sara Lume, Hal, decollata Dec. 8, 1627. towns issuing coins may be mentioned Carthago John Sutcliffe, Sk. decollatus, 14 May, 1629. Novo (Carthagena); Caesarea Augusta (Saragossa); Richard Hoile, Hept, decollatus October 20, 1629. Emerita (Merida); and Sarraco (Sarragona). Henry Hudson, Ux Samuel Ettal ob plurima surta decollati August 28, 1630. On some of the colonial coins of Corinth are Jeremy Bowcock, de Warley, decollatus, April 14,1632. found very beautiful and well-executed repre­ John Crabtree, de Sourby docoLlatus September 22, 1632. sentations of public buildings, statues, figures of Abrham Clegg, Norland, decollatus May 21, 1636. deities, & c , &c. Isaac Illingworth, Ovenden, decollatus, October 7, 1641. The coins of Nemausus (Nismes), a Gallic John Wilkinson, Anthony Mitchell, Souerby decollati town, are remarkable from the fact that they are April 30. 1650. the only ones known in silver; all the other In all 49.— 5 in the last six years o f Henry VIII. Roman colonials are of bras8. 25 in the reign of Elizabeth. 7 „ James I. There are many Spanish and Carthaginian 10 „ Charles I. types of the Imperial age bearing Punic legends, 2 during the Interregnum. showing them to have been still understood and employed at that period. We have received from Mr. Gavin, of Man­ chester, a packet of his novelties, as announced Greek inscriptions are not uncommon, but in our advertisement columns. It contains 50 those in Latin are of course more numerous. well-executed photographs, 25 splendid transfer Roman money was struck in some of the pictures, 2 excellent puzzles, a genuine guide to fortune, and 30 wonderful recipes and tricks, in­ Greek provinces with Latin inscriptions, ex­ cluding “ IIow to make artificial gold and silver clusively for the payment of the soldiers; by which cannot possibly be distinguished from this means their interests in, and recollections genuine.” We can highly recommend the packets as quite satisfactory in every way, and worth of their fatherland were easily and naturally more than the money asked. sustained. 52 THE ÀRCHÆOLOGIST,

Curioua and interesting reverses occur on the Lady or Queen of that pasture for the rest some of the colonial coins. The sacred cone­ of the year; and to be first on this occasion shaped stone used in the worship of El Gabal some of them would sit up all night, and be in (the stone), and carried to Rome by Heliogabalus, the pasture, perhaps, by three in the morning. is found on some types of Emissa. Those of The same day the milkmaids had a dinner at the Emerita have the gate of that city represented: Nowtherd’s, before which, a fiddler, with two coins of Illice, the temple of Juno. Some types girls carrying the garland, and the Ladies of the of Tyre depict Dido, standing beside a figure, pastures, went round the town, and called on each who is digging the foundations of a town of the young women that was expected at the (Carthage). dinner. After dinner, they had a dance till The term autonomous often occurs when mention milking time. On returning from Southorp is made by writers of certain colonies; it des­ pastures, it was usual to dance for a short time cribes those which, although subject to the on the common, near the spot where the cart- Roman rule, yet still retained their own laws road over it entered Lei ley-lane. In the evening and customs. Claudiopolis, Agrigentum (Gir- there was dancing again. On Wednesday, tne genti), and Panormus (Palermo), may be cited married people had an entertainment— in modern as examples of this kind of colony. times tea— and there was another dance. On (To be continued.) Thursday, the jury had a supper. On Saturday, the gaieties were at the highest, and there was a “ great dance,” commonly kept up late into Sun­ §?flpufow Antiquities. day morning. The dances took place in a barn Ed it e d b y WILLIAM ANDREWS, F.R.H.S. prepared for the occasion.

W hitsuntide F estivals at H ornsea in the W hitsuntide.— The following curious account

O lden T ime.— Before the Inclosure Act, which of the consumption of provisions in the Cathedral was passed in 1801, at Hornsea Whitsun-week was of Durham during Whitsun Week, in 1347, a sort of rustic carnival. The pastures were together with the prices of the articles, is taken “ broken ” (that is, cattle were turned into the from the rolis cf the cellarer, at present in the fresh grass) on old May-day, but the gaities took treasury at Durham :— s. d. place at Whitsuntide. On Whit-Sunday, two Six hundred salt herrings...... 3 0 young girls went round the town to collect Four hundred white herrings...... 2 6 Thirty salted salmon...... 7 6 flowers. In the evening these were made into Twelve fresh salmon...... 6 6 a garland, at the Nowtherd’s.* Such of the Fourteen ling, fifty-five “ Kelerys," four turbot...... 23 1 milkmaids as desired went after milking to the Two horse loads of white fish and a “ congr" E 10 “ Playe," “ sparlings," eels, and fresh making of the garland, and had “ cold posset” water fish ...... 2 9 and “ white cakes.” Those’who were so inclined Niue carcases of oxen salted, so bought... 36 0 One carcase and a quarter, fresh...... 6 11J took their cakes away with them, and it was a A quarter of an ox, fresh, bought in the town...... 3 0 common thing to take a piece of white cloth to Seven carcases and a half of swine in salt. 22 2$ wrap it up in. On Monday morning, the milk­ Six carcases fresh...... 12 9 Fourteen calves...... 28 4 maid that got first into each pasture (Hornsea Threekids.andtwenty six sucking porkers 9 Seventy-one geese with their feed...... 11 10 and Southorp) received a ribbon, and was called Fourteen capons, fifty-nine chickens, and * The “ Nowtherd” had to look after the cattle in five dozen pigeons...... 10 3 the pastures. Five stones of hog’s lard ...... 4 2 THB ARCHEOLOGIST. SS

s. d. Saxony, Brunswick, Ac., in a well-preserved Four stone* of cheese, butter, and milk... 6 6 À pottle of vinegar and a pottle of honey. 0 64 postage stamp album ! Should the descendant Fourteen pounds of figs and raisins, six­ of the now illiterate savage prove as intellectually teen pounds of almonds, and eight pounds o f rice...... 3 7 minded as the great historian seems to imagine, Pepper, saffron, cinnamon, and other spices 2 6 One thousand three hundred eggs ...... 15 5 he may study them as reliable records, and seeing none of them postmarked after a certain date, Sum total...... £11 i 0 will recognize the truth of perhaps a mere Similar consumptions took place during the week traditionary remembrance o f the political an­ of the feast of St. Cuthbert and other feasts nihilation of those countries by the Prussian among the monks of Durham for a long period victories. He will see evidence of the existence of years. of a once free, rich, and populous city called P oetical S ignboards.— Mine host and hostess Frankfort; and philatelic publications may tell o f the “ Britannia,” South Normanton, Alfreton, him of the Princes of Thurn and Taxis, and their Derbyshire, gave the following invitation:— wide-spread post-offices. The story of the wrongs Come in and taste Britannia’s ale, of Frankfort and the spite of Bismarck, will You will not find it new nor stale ; To have it good is the intent receive confirmation, and the Prussian kreuzer Of John and Sarah Gent. set commemorate the revolution. The next rhyme was copied in 1872 at Windley, Me may examine, moreover, the numerous near Duffield :— envelopes employed in the course of the said The water kindly turns the mill, While I grind the corn for many ; eventful wars, both by the military writing from And ale, I hope, may further still Assist to turn a penny. the camps, and the civilians communicating with Then try my friends, if soon or late, the army. The very names and numbers of the How ale your strength recruits ; You’ll ever find a cheering bait, squadrons and battalions will stand to all time With honest Puss in-Boots. perpetuated in the albums now scoffed at by some W e must add, attached to the tavern is a flour­ of the wiseacres of the present day. mill, which is referred to in the first two lines of The multifarious divisions of the Germany of the rhyme; the house is called “ Puss-in-Boots.” 1866, will stand recorded by the paper medals

PAPER COINS AND MEDALS. represented by the prettily diversified keys of ( Continued.) Bremen, the eagles of Lubeck, the ingenious T was the opinion of an eminent author, that combinations of mysterious Bergedorf, and the I were every copy of the Bible destroyed, shoals of numerals of Thurn and Taxis so un­ there existed sufficient matter in the shape of ceremoniously kicked out, to be replaced by sets quotations in various other works to supply the for the nominally German, but really Prussian loss. With a moderate stretch of the simile, it empire, north and south; and afterwards by a may be affirmed that, should history be silent, or uniform series for the whole. The sad story of all records lost respecting the great German wars Alsace and Lorraiue will be ever perpetuated in of 1866 and 1870-1, the paper medals in phila­ postal albums. telic albums would prove quite as faithful as How beautifully will the preservation of post­ most historical chronicles. marked sets of seven 1 states, now amalgamated Looking forward to the days of Macaulay’s in the Italian kingdom, illustrate the rise and hackneyed but useful New Zealander, fancy him progress of their revolutionary movements. The admiring the variou» emissions of Hanover, provisional ¡»sue* for Parma, Modena, and 54 THE ARCHAEOLOGIST.

Romagna, doing duty from June, j 859, until good state o f preservation, and are of the size of March of the following year ; those of Tuscany, a penny, one being as large as a crown piece. lasting a twelvemonth longer; the rare blue They are of the reign of James VI. of Scotland, half-tornese impressions of Naples, and the and are dated 1571-2 and 6. It is thought they Neopolitan series bearing Victor Emmanuel's were brought there by some of the Fifesbire head, show what may be termed the transition gentlemen to whom James had given a grant of period between political convulsions and compara­ a portion of the Lews to settle in about that time, tive tranquility. On the other hand, the primary and that these coins were hid when the islanders issues of the above-mentioned duchies, and those made the attack upon them which ultimately of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, with the forced the gentlemen of Fife to quit the Lews. tri-legged armorials of Naples, and the heads of The place where the coins were found was at one Bomba, remain to testify to the numbers of time covered with moss, powerB once domineering in Italy. Finally, the date on the latest postmarked tiara and crossed d j u d f s . keys of Rome marks the last sole vestige of the In my reading I have once or twice met with temporal power of the ruler of the Vatican. allusions to an ancient “ point of war ” called The Lombardo-Venetian stamps, superseded “ Bicn-venu auvergnat,” said to have been used in Lombardy so many years before those substi­ by the Counts of Auvergne in the days of the tuted for Venetia alone, will point out hov Crusades. Can anyone tell me if such a song or protracted was the struggle, ere the final dis: tune ever existed ; if it is known at the present pearance of the Austrian arms on the V nr dan day ; and how a copy could be procured ? X. stamps in 1866, marked the era c f ¿ue con­ Can “ R.S.” or any of your numerous readers junction of the queen city of the sea, and the give an explanation of the following piece relating birthplaces of Virgil and Romeo, with the Hull ? It is halfpenny size, has a blank reverse, kindred cities of Italy. Da. V iner. and been perforated for a badge. It has on (To be continued). obverse an inverted anchor within a shield ; crest, hand holding an oar. On a riband below, “ Spes super sydera.” Legend, “ Domus Trinitatis, Hull, 1369.” It is of this or late last Roman Roads,— In the interesting and well- written “ History of the Stockton and Darlington century workmanship.— D .T .B atty, Manchester. Railway,” by George Markham Tweddell, F.R. S.N.A., the author says :— But of all roadmaker3 (though the Carthaginians are supposed to be T raders’ T okens.— Respecting a second edition the first people who had paved roads, and the of Boyne’s work on these tokens, I agree with Greeks the first to legislate for their repair) the Mr. Smith that one is sadly needed. I have in Romans stand pre eminent. No other people, my collection a great many Boyne never met of ancient or modern times, are fit for a moment with, and I know of others, whose collections are to be compared to the hardy Roman soldiers in very large, who could give from their own cabi­ the construction of firm and spacious roads, nets perhaps thousands undescribed by him. which would have lasted until now, had they The work perhaps, if obtained from all sources, not been ruthlessly torn up by savage numb­ might nearly be doubled. Mr. Boyne, I believe, skulls, in modern days, that they might steal the spent nearly ten years in compiling his work, materials, and boast of living in a state of and, taken as a whole, I think the errors and superior civilization. No matter what difficulties misappropriations of the places, &c., are excusable. lay in the way, the Romans believed that their One cannot be expected to know every locality soldiers were all the better for being inured to on this “ mortal coil.” Mr. Smith describes two labour, as it contributed alike to their health and tokens as being unpublished. Now if Mr S. has m orals; knowing that idleness and dissipation any intention of taking in hand the second edition generally go band in hand ; and all obstacles of Boyne, he also must be more particular in his were surmounted by patient perseverance. descriptions. I have only one of the tokens he D iscoverv ok O ld Coins.— A few days ago a mentions, and it is not only published (see young girl found a large number of silver coins Simpson’s work on Lincolnshire tokens, 1872) but in a horn in the ground near Steinish, about described wrongly in both places. My token three miles from Stornoway. They are all in a reads:— THE ARCHEOLOGIST. 55 O b).—iohh benington. — The Mercers’ Arms (not | the note on this subject in your last issue, page Drapers’), 48, by Mr. Ecroyd Smith, I agree with him that R ev.— IN HOLBIDG. 1670.— £ T.B. “ it is time we possessed another edition of Quendon Street has long been known to have Boyne’s “ Tokens of the 17th C entury;” but I been an error of Boyne; see Mr. Golding’s believe that “• laborious and pains-taking author ” Essex list published in 1868 in the East Anglian, (as rightly styled by Mr. Smith) found his book where another Quendon token is also described. to be a financial failure, and I very much doubt H enry Christie. whether another edition would ever pay its pub­ P.S.— The note on Joseph Smith, of Thaxted, lisher, unless a numerous body of subscribers is also copied from the East Anglian, and is Mr. could be first obtained. In the meantime several Golding’s. gentlemen have brought out lists for various localities of such tokens as were unknown to T raders’ T okens.—-It would indeed be a. great Boyne when he published his book in 1858. A boon to collectors of the traders’ tokens of the bare enumeration of their names and labours will seventeenth century if Mr. Boyne could be show to the readers of the Archaologist how many induced to issue a new edition of his very valua­ earnest workers there are who have striven to ble work. 1 have not any doubt that there are snatch from oblivion those interesting relics of a very many, both unpublished and wrongly bygone age, 1st, in order of time, Mr. Augustus described, yet to appear. Mr. Ecroyd-Smith W. Franks, of the British Museum, in 1862, would have done well, however, not to have made compiled a list of 209 London and 37 Southwark an uncalled for sneer at Mr. Boyne, who, while tokens, not described in Boyne’s work. 2, Some taking fair credit to himself for exercising great years afterwards, Mr. J. S. Smallfield supplied care to be accurate in his descriptions, expressly another list from the same two places, with 240 says in his introduction, “ But after all the care additions to Boyne, London, of course, having bestowed, many of the tokens are no doubt again the lion’s share. This valuable paper, as incorrectly placed, and must be left to be rectified well as that of Mr. Franks, was read before the by those who are interested in the subject.” Dir. Numismatic Society, and both were afterwards Boyne, to my own certain knowledge, took the published in their chronicle. 3. In 1868, Mr. utmost care in his attributions, and would not on C. Golding (of the firm of Golding tfc Lawrence, any account have invented a street or place to 18, Ivy Lane, E.C.) published an excellent illus please himself. He certainly was mistaken in trated book on the “ Coinage of Suffolk,” which the Quendon token, which was correctly placed was “ printed for private distribution only.” by Mr. Golding to the Essex series, several years This contained all “ the regal coins, the leaden since, which he published in the East Anglian pieces, and tokens of the 17th, 18th, and 19th Magazine. Having been a diligent student of century,” known to have been struck in the the subject, both before and since the publication county; and those of the 17th (nearly all of “ Boyne,” I am entirely of his opinion that described from specimens in Mr. Goulding’s many thousands cf these interesting pieces have extensive collection) added above 70 to Boyne. yet to be described ; but with all my pains I 4. In the same year, Mr. Golding also published have not succeeded in obtaining 2000 new in the East Anglian a list of all the Essex tokens, descriptions, and many of them prove beyond adding 65 descriptions to those in Boyne ; and doubt the general accuracy of Mr. Boyne, es­ in it he corrects his error in assigning the Quen­ pecially where a halfpenny has turned up of don Street token to London (as noticed in your which he had described a farthing, and vice versd. last number), and restores it to its native county. Mr. Boyne, it must bo remembered, entered upon This list wa3 reprinted from the East Anglian by a comparatively new field of inquiry, and the Samuel Tymms, Lowestoft. 5. The same suc­ issue of his work stimulated the energies of local cessful and indefatigable token collector has since collectors, many of whom were necessarily un­ contributed a paper to the Manchester Numis­ known to him. Some o f these have issued the matic Society on the Early Lancashire Tokens,” results of their researches, and have, of course, with 28 additions to Boyne. 6. About the as Mr. B. expected, “ rectified ” some of his same time, a list of all the Sussex tokens, fur­ errors ; but none of them has ventured to accuse nished by Messrs. J. S. Smallfield and E. Ellman, him of pretending to infallibility.— J. S. Small- was “ reprinted from vol. xxiv. of the Sussex T i e l d , University Street, London. Archaeological Collections,” with 70 additions to 17th Century Local T okens.— Referring to Boyne. 7. Mr. Justin Simpson, of Stamford, 56 THE ARCHAEOLOGIST. brought out in 1872 his Lincolnshire list, with Gloriouvs III., Vis ; Glorivs Pit Sex ; God save copious notes and illustrations, thus adding to the K in g; God save the Realm, &c., &c.— D. T. Boyne above 40 new descriptions 8. In 1873 B atty, Manchester, Mr. Tillett, of Norwich, furnished his list of the W i l l i a m A l l e n — On the issue of the pro­ Norfolk tokens to a local magazine, entitled the clamation by Queen Elizabeth, which declare.! “ Eastern Counties Collectanea,” and added about the sovereign to be the head of the Church in 40 descriptions to Boyne’s. 9. Mr. 1'. N. lieu of the Supreme Pontiff, the bishops and W orth, of Plymouth, supplied an < :cellent paper clerics of England were called on to take the on the tokens of Cornwall to the Royal Institution necessary oath of allegiance. Along with those of that county, which was published in No. xvi. bishops and students who quitted these shores of their journal, and the new descriptions he gave, and found a home in the Netherlands (then under together with several transfers from other locali­ the dominion of Philip II., of Spain), was William ties, more than doubled the numbers in Boyne’s Allen,—sometimes written Alanus,— a member Cornish list. 10, The Rev. W . G. Searle, of an ancient Lancashire family of that name. vicar of Oakragton (or Boakington, as he spells He was Canon of York, and a Doctor of Divinity it), has published anew Cambridgeshire list, with of the University College of Oxford. The rule many additions, 11. I have in my possession and political views of Philip greatly favoured the a MS. list of about 120 Irish additions to Boyne, entry of the fugitives into his kingdom, where which were kindly supplied to me by Dr. Aquila they prospered ; for William Allen ha vine pro­ Smith, of D ublin,and his friend, W , J. Gillespie, ceeded to Louvain, there became acquainted with Esq. 12. Lastly, I have compiled a list of 95 Jean Vendeviile, a professor in the university of Devonshire tokens and varieties unknown to Mr. that town ; and some years afterwards these two, Boyne, 60 of which are in my own collection. in company with Philip Morgan, who had The above lists give in the aggregate more than formerly been Provost of Oriel College, Oxford, 1000 additions to Boyne, and douhtless many undertook a journey to Rome. Vendeville, who others might he brought to light if collectors afterwards held a law professorship at Douai would communicate to each other, through the (then a town of Flanders , wrote to Allen, at medium of your useful paper, any fresh discovery Louvain, offering him a professorship of theology, they meet with. In buying lately only eight of lie accepted his friend Vendeville’s offer, and these tokens, four of them were not to he found came to Douat, where they established a small in Boyne. The descriptions of these shall appear house for the education of those recusant students in next month’s number, by your permission. In of the English universities, who were scattered Mr. Boyne’s introduction to bis excellent work, and housed in the various colleges in France and lie estimates the entire issue may have been Flanders. In 1578, this establishment became nearly 20,000 (although lie only describes 9,466), of some note, and Vendeville, who had been raised and seeing so many have turned up since he to the office of vice-chancellor, and had gained published his book in 1858, it is very likely his thegood-will of Philip,did not fail tointroduce this surmise was correct,— II. S. Gill. seminary to the notice of the king. Allen, after its J. O. S mith.— I think “ J. O. Smith ” (May I suppression,— which was brought about by the No., p. 40) will hud the name on his coin spelled spread of a false rumour of there being within “ Gcorguis lib , B u x " Tt is, as Mr. Christie its wall a conspiracy for the annexation of says, a counterfeit, or perhaps more strictly Flanders to France— went to Rheims, when he, speaking, an imitation coin. I have about 100 with his students, were warmly welcomed by varieties, and give you n few o f the legends on Cardinal de Guise. There they remained during obverse:— Georpuis lib. Rex; Georgivs III, a period of fifteen years, enjoying tranquility, Rex ; Gdorovis Tii lidx; Georgivs II., Rex until the year 1593. Beyond the foregoing (1770); Georgius II., Rex (1777); George III.. notes, little lias been written which will throw Rex; George III., Rules; George for ever; any light on the career of William Allen— after­ Georgui III., Rex; George, I sing of B; George wards Cardinal. Perhaps some reader can Ruled; George Rules; Georugis II., Rux; inform me of what Lancashire family he comes, Geobgius Ti, Rox ; Georguis III., Rux ; Georivs and if any is in possession of facts or information Pit Sex ; George Til Ren ; Gcoriuvs III., Ves ; relative to the careers of this triumvir, viz., Glaciovs Dei Pax ; Glaucovs Dei Pax : Glorious William Allen, Jean Vendeville,- and Philip II., Ren (1775); Gloriovs TTI,, Vis; Gloriovg Morgan, I shall be obliged by their communi­ Jer Vis; Gloriovs Ne Son; Glorious Tii Rox; cating same to me.— J. 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