P. 32. l. 9 for lvij. read lviij.

33. l. 6. for xc. read ixc.

The foregoing letter appears to have been written, in the tenth year of the reign of King Edward the Fourth, A.D. 1470; when the quarrel between the King and the Duke of Clarence and Earl of Warwick, which had been lately made up, broke out with increased violence; in consequence of the affront put on the Archbishop of York by the King, in suspecting him of an attempt on his life by poison, at an entertainment to which he had been invited, Clarence and Warwick resented this highly, and seeing that Edward's jealousy of them hadtaken too deep root to be removed, retired, about March 7, to Warwick, where they assembled a body of troops, in order to join Sir Robert Welles, who had taken up arms in Lincolnshire; but being disappointed by his defeat, and also in their subsequent design of proceeding into Yorkshire, by the King's diligence, they retired into Devonshire, whence they made their escape, with their families, to Calais. See Carte's History of England, Vol. II. pp. 779 and 780.

Besecheth mekely your pove' Suito' William Ayscogh one of your justice of the comon benche, that where he late by your comaundement was charged to take upon hym the degree of Sergeaunt of your lawe to his grete expenses and costes. And or he had ben' fully two yere in that office at the barre he was called by your heghnesun to the benche and made Justice, by which makyng Justice all his Wynnings that he sholde have hade in the said office of Sergeant and alle the fees that he had in England weere and be cessed and expired fro hym to his grete empoysshyng for they weere the grete substance of his lyvelode: and also he hath suche infirmite in his eghen that he dredith hym gretely of faillyng and perysshyng of his sight.

I have the honour to present to your Lordship and the Society, for their inspection, a curious, unpublished, autonomous, small brass coin of Sala in Phrygia, in fine preservation, of excellent workmanship, and undoubted antiquity. The type of this coin is a bearded, and laureated head, and on the reverse a bunch of grapes with the letters CAΛH very distinct: the NΩN, or termination of the word CAΛHNΩN, is now not visible, owing to the nun, omega, and nun, having been clipped, in order to reduce the size of, the coin, that it might be set as a gem. This we know has been sometimes the case with coins of superior workmanship. The position of Sala was upon the Mænder, between Pylaceum and Gazèna, to the north and south of it, making the boundary of Phrygia towards Lycia. Its longitude, in Mercator's map, is from Ptolemy 60–15, and latitude, which is reckoned, after its longitude, is 38–20. It lies on the river to the west of Mount Taurus, between the Lycus and the Mænder. This Sala, in Phrygia magna, is not mentioned by Stephanus Byzantinus, Strabo, or D'Anville; and, although passed over in silence by these great names in geography, richly deserves to be recorded, were it only for its excellence in the numismatic art, in its free state, and under the government of its own laws.

Considering it the duty of every member of this Society to communicate any information in his power, which may tend to elucidate a point in ancient history, or any subject intimately connected therewith; I take the liberty of laying before the Society a Greek brass coin, which has been in my possession several years, together with some observations on it.

I herewith send to you, for the inspection of the Society, a literary curiosity, namely a M.S. copy of St. John's Gospel, which is certainly between eleven and twelve hundred years old, and which is said to have been taken out of the tomb of St. Cuthbert, the celebrated patron-saint of Durham and Bishop of Lindisfarne.

I beg leave to enclose to you a transcript of an original minute, or remembrance of council, preserved amongst the Records in the Chapter-house, Westminster, for preparations for the ceremonial of the public funeral of Catherine, the divorced wife of King Henry the Eighth.

The View and Surveye ther taken the xxj. daye of June in the xxxiij yeare of the raigne of our Soveraigne Lord Kinge Henrye the viijth. by Thomas Mildmay one of the Kings Auditors thereunto assigned.

It was in 1281, in the tenth year of the reign of King Edward the First, that Lewellin, prince of Wales, endeavoured to throw off the English yoke; and commenced a revolt by seizing the castle of Hawarden, in Flintshire; and laying siege to the castles of Flint and Rhuddlan. On the 6th of April, the king being then at Devizes, summoned his barons, and other military tenants, to attend him at Worcester on Whitsunday following, in order to proceed against the Welsh; and afterwards, by a second summons, dated from Hartlebury, near Worcester, called upon them in greater numbers to attend him, properly equipped, at Rothelan, on Sunday, on the morrow of the feast of St. Peter ad Vincula.† Rhuddlan, or as it is called in the records, Rothelan Castle, appears to have been the head quarters of the king during this expedition; and most of his orders, entered on the Rotuli Walliœ, of the tenth and elventh years of his reign, are dated thence. This roll of expences, which was discovered in 1805, among the unsorted records in the White Tower, consists of four membranes, containing the particulars of the sums paid to the carpenters, masons, smiths, and other workmen employed at the Castle, which no doubt had great additions made to it on this occasion. The wages also of archers and sailors, and of mowers and haymakers, are here detailed under separate heads; besides a great variety of articles under the head of necessaries.

I beg leave to enclose to you a transcript (No 1,) of a libel against Alexander Neville, Archbishop of York, in the reign of Richard the Second; which is a curious specimen of the old English, in the northern dialect of that day; and expresses the popular opinion and animosity entertained against the archbishop, as one of the favourites of the unfortunate king, at the commencement of the civil discords of that reign. It appears from an original parliamentary petition, that two copies of this libel were affixed on the pillar of the Chapter House of Westminster, where the Lords and Commons were assembled in parliament, and a third on the door of Saint Paul's Cathedral.

Having had the honour to exhibit very lately a curious unpublished small brass coin, to your Lordship and the Society, which bore on the right side a female turreted head, and on the reverse a square inscription, as follows, ΑΤΟϒΣΙΕΩΝΤΩΝ ΠΡΟΣ ΤΟΝ ΚΑΠΡΟΝ, and within the square, an arrow and a palm-branch; I beg leave to make some further remarks upon this very rare and interesting coin, which I then, in my first dissertation, supposed to belong to a town of Atusa, situate on the Caper, that, in conjunction with the Lycus, runs into the Mæander, in Asia Minor; but, upon reconsidering the matter, I am convinced that the Caper, in Asia Minor, is not the river on which Atusa stood; but the Caper which, as well as the Lycus, runs into the Tigris. I in some measure prepared the way for this opinion, by observing in my late paper, that the arrow on this coin was a type of the Tigris, or Dejlet of the Persians, or ancient Hidekel of the Assyrians. I shall now state my reasons for believing that the Atusians were inhabitants of the banks of the Caper that runs into the Tigris, and not into the Mæander.

We will and comaunde you forthewithe uppon the sight hereof ye deliver or cause to be delivȓd to our trustie and welbeloved s'vnte Edmonde Standen Clarke of our stable one wagon of tymbre worck for Ladies and Gentlewomen of our prevye chamber withe wheeles and axeltrees strakes, nayles, clowts and all maner of work thertoo apperteyninge, fine redde cloths to kever and line the same wagon fringed with redde sylke and lyned with redde buckeram paynted with redde colours Collers drawghts of redde lether, hamer clothes with our armes & badges of our colours and all other things apperteininge unto the same wagon And these our letters shalbe your sufficient warraunte and discharge on this behalfe at all tymes Yeven under our signet at our Manour of Westmr. the xxviijth daye of Aprill In the thirde and fourthe years of our reign.

The origins of the most celebrated nations are, from natural causes, usually enveloped in obscurity. Their sources, like those of the mightiest rivers, are not only minute, but remote, and often disputable. In some cases, however, the access to them becomes more, rather than less practicable, with the lapse of ages: and it certainly becomes the more interesting, in proportion to the celebrity which nations gradually acquire. To these circumstances, I ascribe that attention with which you have honoured the hints that I have occasionally dropped, concerning the original population of the British Islands. I willingly acquiesce with your desire for a brief detail of my reasons for differing in opinion, on this subject, with writers for whose learning and genius I entertain the sincerest respect. If you judge the following suggestions worthy of being communicated to the Society of Antiquaries, I shall hope that they may lead to a more complete investigation of the subject, and to the correction of any mistakes that I may have committed. I apprehend the inquiry to be well suited to the purposes of their institution, and that it will afford scope to the diversified talents of their numerous members. My endeavour to recommend it to their consideration, will, I hope, be accepted as an expression of my gratitude for the honour of having lately been admitted of their number.

By this Writ, the Chancellor was directed to prepare letters patent under the great seal, according to the form therein contained, in which is the following clause, “Pardonavimus remisimus & relaxavimus Joh'i Stanley seniori hostiario camere n're, alias dc'o Joh'i Stanley seniori de Batersey in com' Sur' armigero, alias dc'o Joh'i Stanley armigero servienti armatur' nr'e, alias d'co Joh'i Stanley nup' de Wyrall in com' Cestr' armigero, seu quocumq' alio no'ie censeatr. o'imod' tñsgressiones offensas mesprisiones contemptus & impetico'es p' ipum' Johem ante presentem diem contra formam statutor' de liberatis pannor' & tapicior' fc'os sive p'petratos unde punicio caderet in finem & redempc'oem aut in alias penas pecuniarias seu imprisonamenta statut' predc'is nonobstantib'

All writers on the subject of the Roman Stations in this island, agree in opinion that Caerhun, a small village on the river Conway, about five miles distant from the present town of that name, is the site of the ancient Conovium; a station which occurs in the eleventh iter of Antonine's Itinerary, and in the first of that of Richard of Cirencester. Camden supposes the name of Caerhun to be a corruption of Caer hên, the old city, but says that the common tradition of the neighbourhood was, that it received its name from Rhun ap Maelgwn Gwynedh, who died about the year 586. It is certain that in very ancient writings it is called Caerhun, whatever may be the etymology of its name.

I have the honour to exhibit to your Lordship and the Society an Agate, on which is engraved the head of a Persian Princess, with her name in Pahlavi, or ancient Persick characters. With the Gem itself is a drawing, and an impression in wax. The letters are six in number, and as follows: Sheen, Alif, Laum, Vau, Meem, Yee, and make up the word Shalumee, the name of a woman, and in modern Persian Selimee, corresponding with the Greek term EIPHNH, Irene, or Peace. The lady, who bears this name on my Gem, was the daughter of Chosru Parvees, the victorious, twenty-first monarch of the race of Sassan, of the fourth dynasty, of Persia, who having been set upon his throne, from which he had been driven by his subjects, by Mauritius the Greek Emperor, married his daughter Irene, and called her by a Persian name, which, like her own, signified Peace.

I have just received from Mr. Rashleigh of Menabilly, in Cornwall, and have the honour of transmitting to you, three articles, which he desires to submit, through your channel, to the inspection of the Society of Antiquaries.

They consist of 1. A Tin Cup of singular Form.

2. Three portions of a Circle of Metal, inlaid with real or artificial Gem.

3. A Hurling Ball.

Observing some curious particulars in the first volume of the Archaeologia relating to Hardyng the historian, I am induced to send you two short extracts from a copy of his rhyming Chronicle among the Harleian Manuscripts in the Museum. One of these little transcripts preserves the Letter of Defiance which the insurgent lords sent to Henry the Fourth, immediately before the battle of Shrewsbury. The other relates to the spurious Chronicle said to have been forged by John of Gaunt, in which Edmund Crouchback was made the eldest son of king Henry the Third.

Various have been the opinions respecting the site of Camulodunum, the first colony of the Romans in Britain. Camden, Gibson, Horsley, and Mr. Reynolds place it at Malden; Richard of Cirencester, Dr. Stukely, Bishop Stillingfleet, Baxter, Morant, Dr. Mason, Mr. Gough, Drake, and the Rev. Mr. Leman, with more propriety at Colchester, as the following quotations and personal observations, I hope, will sufficiently demonstrate.

I have the honour to exhibit to your Lordship and the Society a Silver Tetradracm, in fine preservation, with Siculo-Punic characters, of which the two first, the most material, are sufficiently plain to enable me to determine the name of the town to which the coin belongs, which I never could have done from the plates of Barthelemy and Eckhel; who have both published it, but without satisfying themselves that they have read the inscription right. They indeed have given it to Palermo and Imachara, but as this appropriation must depend upon the letters, I shall show that in my coin it is neither the one nor the other, but Camarina.