QF SELBORNE. 39 
LETTER IX. 
By way of supplement, I shall trouble you once 
more on this subject, to inform yeu that Wolmer, 
with her sister forest Ayles Holt, alzas Alice Holt,* 
as it is called in old records, is held by grant from 
the crown for a term of years. 
The grantees that the author remembers are, 
Brigadier-general Emanuel Scroope Howe and his 
lady Ruperta, who was a daughter of Prince Ru- 
pert; a Mr. Mordaunt, of the Peterborough family, 
who married a dowager Lady Pembroke; Henry 
Bilson Legge and lady; and now Lord Stawel, 
their son. 
of coins, as they expected, they found great heaps, the one lying 
on the otheras if shot out of a bag, many of which were in good 
preservation. Silver and gold these inquirers expected to find ; 
but their discoveries consisted solely of many hundreds of Roman 
copper coins and some medallions, all of the lower empire. 
There was net much virti stirring at that time in this neighbour- 
hood ; however, some of the gentry and clergy around bought 
ne pleased them best, and some dozens fell to the share of the 
author. 
The owners at first held their commodity at a high price ; but, 
finding that they were not likely to meet with dealers at such a 
rate, they soon lowered their terms, and sold the fairest as they 
could. Thecoins that were rejected became current, ard passed 
for farthings at the petty shops. Of those that we saw, the greater 
part were of Marcus Aurelius and the Empress Faustina his wife, 
the father and mother of Commodus. Some of Faustina were 
in high relief, and exhibited an agreeable set of features, which 
probably resembled that lady, who was more celebrated for her 
beauty than forher virtues. The medallions, in general, were of 
a paler colonies the coins.—WuiTe’s Antiquities of Selborne. 
* “In Rot. Inquisit. de statu forest. in Scaccar., 36 Ed. IIL., it 
is called Aisholt.” In the same, “ Tit. Wolmer and Aisholt 
Hantisc. Dominus Rex habet unam capellam in haia sua de 
Kingesle.” ‘‘ Haia, sepes, sepimentum, parcus: a Gall. haie and 
kaye.” —Spelman’s Glossary. 
