William Nicolson - Edward Thwaites - 1699-07-10

William Nicolson

William Nicolson - Edward Thwaites - 1699-07-10

FINA IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ	14606
InstitutionName of Institution.	Oxford, Bodleian Library
InventoryInventory number.	MS Rawlinson D 377, ff.46-7
AuthorAuthor of the document.	William Nicolson
RecipientRecipient of the correspondence.	Edward Thwaites
Correspondence dateDate when the correspondence was written: day - month - year .	July 10, 1699
PlacePlace of publication of the book, composition of the document or institution.
Associated personsNames of Persons who are mentioned in the annotation.	John Evelyn, William Camden, James Sutherland
LiteratureReference to literature.	Camden 15861, Nicolson 16992, Harris 1992, p. 303 n. 4 (corr.)3, Burnett 2020b, pp. 1539-40, 793, 7974
KeywordNumismatic Keywords ^ᵖ	Coin Collection , Roman , Roman Imperial , Roman Republican , Bronze , Scottish , English , Medals , Saxon
LanguageLanguage of the correspondence	English
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'I had a very pleasing and fine Entertainment from M^r Sutherland, their famous Botanist who (besides a wonderful Variety of Plants, in an excellent Method, &c.) shew’d me the richest Collection of Medals and Coins that is perhaps in any private hand in the King’s Dominions. He has near 700 Roman Denarij, Consular and Caesarean, with different Reverses; sometimes above twenty of the same Emperour. He has few pieces in Copper and Brass; and the reason he gave me, was, because (in Scotland) there are forty silver ones to be found for one in either of those metals. I wonder’d at it: since the Case is quite otherwise here in Cumberland. Besides a vast number of old English and Scotch Coins, he shew’d me above a hundred old Pennies of Neighbouring Princes (in France, Flanders, Germany, &c) coin’d about the time of our Edwards, first and second; all of which were quarter’d, and bore stars, &c just as our English ones of that time. Its too late, I find, to make any corrections in y^e last Chapter of my Library, about our English coins. Otherwise I have some observations that would have been of good use to me. I must content my self with the hopes of seeing my work better’d, in this as well as other particulars, on a second edition. Amongst his foreign Medals, that of Charles the Ninth (of France) was very remarkable. It was struck just after the Parisian Massacre in the year 1573. and has this inscription on the Edge Verae Religionis assertori; which shows that the giving a Legend there is more antient than M^r Evelyn conjectur’d it to be. Another he had of Pope Gregory the 13^th on the same occasion; on the reverse whereof was a destroying Angel cutting down all before him, inscrib’d Hugonothorum Strages. Amongst his Saxon coins I saw a CENVVLF REX which (by some circumstances) I took to be different from that in Cambden, and certainly belongs to our Northymbrian King of that name.'

(Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson D 377, ff.46-7; Harris 1992, p. 303 n. 4 (corr.); Burnett 2020b, pp. 797, 1539-40)

References

^ Camden, William (1586) Britannia siue Florentissimorum regnorum, Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae, et insularum adiacentium ex intima antiquitate chorographica descriptio, London.
^ Nicolson, William (1699) The English Historical Library, Vol. 3, London.
^ Harris, Richard L. (ed.) (1992), A chorus of grammars: the correspondence of George Hickes, and his collaborators on the Thesaurus linguarum septentrionalium, Toronto.
^ 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.