'Dr Stratford of Xt Church ... to his ... lodgings, where he shew’d me a great number of Medals, most of them English, divers of wch I had never seen before, one of wch was a Silver one of Q. Eliz. ao 1561, with the Harp on the Reverse. There was also a silver one of the Queen of Scots, but her Face not on it. But the scarcest & most valuable of all those he shew’d me was a large Brass Otho of my Ld Abingdon’s, lodg’d with the Dr by the Earl himself, as an Earnest that he, the sd Earl, designs to give all his Medals to Christ- Church Library. The Dr thinks it was found in Wiltshire. On the obverse side is, IMP CAES OTHO AVG PM TRPPP C...S (the last is for cos, tho’ there is a crack where the o should be, and on this side the Breach there seems to be s, tho’ it be not at allplain). On the Reverse, PAX AVGVST S C. Fig. stans, dex. ram., sin. cornuc. The Counterfeits I have seen are vastly different. De Wilde mentions several genuine Medals of this Emperor in Brass, & reflects upon Chifletius for saying none were struck. Dr Stratford said that all Antiquaries allow’d it to be certainly genuine, & yt was sent to my Ld Pembroke, who also judg’d it authentick.'
(Hearne 1885, vol. 6, p. 137; Burnett 2020b, pp. 1245, 408 n. 229, 1022, 1048)
