'Memorandum that many years ago I drew up a Supplement to Mr Ashmole’s Catalogue of the Coins in the Archives of the Bodl. Library. This Supplement I entered with my own hand in their particular places in the 3 volumes of the said Catalogue, which is now remaining in the said Library. Mr Ray’s & several other coins were given afterwards. These I also digested & placed in particular Drawers, & over each Cell I wrote with my own hand the name of each coin with distinctive numbers, referring to the Catalogue I drew up also of these. But this catalogue is distinct from Mr Ashmole’s three volumes, & it also takes in Greek coins given by Archbishop Laud, which Mr Ashmole had taken no notice of, as it does likewise many other coins, given by different benefactors since Mr Ashmole’s time. His distinct Catalogue (which is an Appendix to the other) I keep by me, and ’twas never copied, but the Drawers, it seems, are sold, the numbers & names being first destroyed, and I hear new Boxes are made; divers of the coins being perhaps imbezzled.' (Hearne 1885, vol. 11, p. 51; Burnett 2020b, p. 436)
