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APPENDIX. 



While these sheets were passing through the press, I received a communica- 

 tion from the Rev. Mr. Butler, expressing his desire to make known a conjecture 

 which he had made respecting some of the three-crown groats, and offering at the 

 same time to permit me to publish it as an Appendix to my paper, I gladly availed 

 myself of the kind offer, and I trust that the originality of the conjecture, and 

 the ability with which my learned friend has supported his views, will render it 

 acceptable to my readers. 



"Trim, 1840. 

 " My dear Sir, 



" In Mr. Lindsay's very valuable * View of the Coinage of Ireland,' 



he notices some newly discovered varieties of the money, commonly called the 



three-crown money, from its bearing on the reverse the ancient arms of Ireland. 



" One of these varieties, he observes, bears the ' remarkable legend. Rex 

 Anglie Francie et Rex Hibemie, the latter title being hitherto supposed to have 

 been first adopted by Henry the Eighth.' 



" Mr. Lindsay is of opinion that these coins, of which he engraves two 

 specimens, (Nos. 126, 127,)* belong to Edward IV., and I believe that this 

 appropriation of these coins has met with your concurrence. It is hazardous to 

 oppose the judgment of two such numismatists, nor should I attempt to do so in 

 a case which had been fully examined and decided ; but it is probable that it 

 did not occur, either to Mr. Lindsay or to you, to investigate the obscure claim 

 which I shall now endeavour to urge upon you. 



" The case we have to consider is this : We have coins bearing the title of 

 Rex Hybemie. To what king are these coins to be assigned ? From their 

 pattern, their execution, and their weight, it is plain that they are of the time 

 from Edward the Fourth to Henry the Seventh, inclusive ; but the public title of 

 all the recognized kings in that period, was Dominus Hybemie, which title 

 appears upon the coins of Edward the Fourth, Richard the Third, and Henry 



* See also PI. IV. fig. 77, of this Essay. 

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