Ralph Thoresby - John Sharp - 1695-06-21

Ralph Thoresby

Ralph Thoresby - John Sharp - 1695-06-21

FINA IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ	14377
InstitutionName of Institution.	Gloucestershire Archives
InventoryInventory number.	D3549/6/5/5
AuthorAuthor of the document.	Ralph Thoresby
RecipientRecipient of the correspondence.	John Sharp I
Correspondence dateDate when the correspondence was written: day - month - year .	June 21, 1695
PlacePlace of publication of the book, composition of the document or institution.
Associated personsNames of Persons who are mentioned in the annotation.	Obadiah Walker, William Nicolson
LiteratureReference to literature.	Camden 16951, Burnett 2020b, pp. 1504-52
KeywordNumismatic Keywords ^ᵖ	Saxon , Rippon , Silver
LanguageLanguage of the correspondence	English
External LinkLink to external information, e.g. Wikpedia ^ᵖ

Export: CSV

RDF

Map

You can move or zoom the map to explore other correspondence!

Grand documentOriginal passage from the "Grand document".

'I am sorry that I am able to give your Lordship no better account of the Saxon coynes lately found at Rippon, w^ch Your Grace was pleased to transmit to me by our Learned Vicar, by whom I Have return’d them with slender Remarks ... The latter Silver Coyn I can make nothing of, I have one of ye same sort wch was found in 1684 at Cattall, w^ch I transmitted to Mr Walker for the new Camden, but he either forgot or thought it not worth inserting because unintelligible, tho the Learned & Ingenious Mr Nicolson Archdeacon of Carlisle, inclines to beleiv it in memory of the famous Accord between Athelstan & Guthrun the dane...'

()Burnett 2020b, pp. 1504-5)

References

^ Camden, William (ed. Edmund Gibson)(1695) Britannia, London.
^ Burnett, Andrew M. (2020), The Hidden Treasures of this Happy Land. A History of Numismatics in Britain from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, BNS Special Publ. No 14 = RNS Special Publ. No 58, London, Spink & Son.