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Archbishop Lawrence Booth, 16th to 20th Edward IV. 



The British Museum possesses a single specimen of a penny, 

 similar in type to those of Archbishop Nevile, which having B 

 on one side of the king's bust, and a key on the other, is 

 assigned to this prelate. ^ 



Archbishop Thomas Rotherham,^ 20th Edward IV. to 15th 



Henry VII. 

 Penny of Edward IV. ^ 



1. A York penny of the usual type having T on the left, and 



a key on the right of the bust, is assigned to this prelate.* 

 Penny of Richard III. 



2. Obv. RiCARD Di GRA REX ANG. On onc sidc of the bust 



T, on the other, a key. mm. a boar's head.^ 

 Rev. civiTAS EBORACi. Cross and pellets ; a quatrefoil in 

 the centre. 

 Penny of Henry VII., first coinage. 



Obv. HENRic DI GRA REX ANG. Frout face and open 



crown, T on each side of bust. mm. a rose. 

 Rev. CIVITAS EBORACI. Cross and pellets, quatrefoil in the 

 centre.^ 



^ Hawkins, p. 116. 



2 The name of Archbishop Eotherham's mint-master was Thomas Graa, or Gray, 

 a goldsmith at York. He was sheriff of the city in 1488, elected an alderman in 

 March 1492, was one of the representatives of the city in the parliament of the 11th 

 of Henry VII., and lord mayor in 1497. 



3 Ending has engraved a York coin of Edward IV., which he denominates a 

 groat, and assigns to the mint of Archbishop Eotherham from its having the letter 

 E on one side of the king's bust. (Annals, Vol. II. p. 371. Supp. pi. 3, No. 13.) 

 Mr. Hawkins describes this coin as a thick piece the size of a half-groat, but weigh- 

 ing 76 grains, and the E, he observes, is perhaps for Archb. Eotherham. As it seema 

 most probable that neither groats nor half-groats were struck in the York archiepis- 

 copal mint earlier than the reign of Henry VII., I have not included this specimen 

 among the coins of Archbishop Eotherham. Indeed, Mr. Ending in another part of 

 his Annals, states that Wolsey was the only prelate who ventured to issue groats 

 from his mint. Vol. I., p. 306. 



* Hawkins. One specimen is in the British Museum, a second was in the late 

 Mr. Cuff's collection. 



* British Museum. Hawkins, p. 119, pi. 27, No. 359. Another specimen of this 

 type, and a third with mm. a rose, were in Mr, Cuff's collection. 



* Hawkins, pi. 28, No, 370. 



