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interchanged with one another the compliment of writing 

 entries of documents in each other's book, by way of multiplying 

 the security of the copy. At any rate there are a number of 

 entries in the Bath book relating to Abingdon, and I cannot 

 conceive any other explanation of them. Among other things 

 that may be mentioned as being found in distant places 

 are the coins. There were a great number of coins struck in 

 Bath from the time of Athelstan in 925, up to the period of 

 Edward the Confessor. I think there must have been more than 

 one monetarius who was licensed to strike coins in Bath. 

 At any rate there are a great number of coins in existence of 

 the Saxon period that have the name of Bath on them, but I 

 am sorry to say there is not one preserved in the place itself. I 

 asked Mr. Eussell, at the Royal Institution, the question this 

 morning, and he said they had none. The place where I made 

 the acquaintance of these coins was at Stockholm. 



I had the pleasure many years ago of looking over the great 

 collection of Saxon coins in the museum at Stockholm, and 

 the memory of it was revived in a recent conversation with 

 Mr. Arthur Evans, who told me that his father had just 

 come back from Stockholm, where he had bought from the 

 Trustees of the Museum there a large number of coins. Mr. 

 Evans, who is well-known as an authority in numismatics, 

 especially British and Saxon, had bought a very large number 

 of Saxon coins, which were superfluous duplicates in the 

 Stockholm collection. While Saxon coins do exist in the 

 world in very large numbers, and while Bath has its place 

 among the limited number of cities in which they were struck, 

 it is remarkable that they are all gone from their native place. 

 There is not one to be found in our cases here in the Bath 

 Museum. 



I have spoken of the Monastery. We all know that the 

 present Abbey Church represents it. Of the Saxon building 

 we have nothing left, but there are some solid traces of the 



