By the Rev. Canon J. E. Jackson, F.8.A. AT 
It could not have been of much benefit to the Edington brethren, 
for they had to pay out of it £10 a year, or thirty nobles, to Sarum 
Cathedral, leaving only 13s. 4d., or two nobles, for themselves. I 
mention the amount emphatically in nobles, as it suggests an in- 
teresting discovery at Bremridge. The name is properly Bremel 
ridge, and Bremel is simply our old acquaintance the bramble: the 
same that gave its name to Bremhill, and we are to presume that 
at both places the ground was more open and rough, and favourable 
to its growth.! On the farm here belonging to Mr. Charles Phipps 
some workmen making alterations in the house, in the year 1877, 
came upon a hoard of thirty-two gold coins, piled one upon another, 
as if they had been packed in some case of wood or leather, which 
had perished. The workmen, ignorant of the law, proceeded 
forthwith to appropriate the spoil, but being informed that such 
gold treasure-trove belongs neither to the finder nor even to the 
landlord, disgorged it. The coins were shown to the late Dr. Baron, 
of Upton Scudamore, who took much interest in ascertaining what 
they were, and published a full account of them, with plates, both 
in the Archeologia and in the Wiltshire Magazine. He describes 
them as gold nobles of the reigns of Edward III. and his son, 
Richard II., and, therefore, deposited not before Richard. One 
peculiarity is that some of them were coined in England, bearing 
the English King’s name on them, and some in Flanders, bearing 
the name of Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy and Count of 
Flanders. This, as Dr. Baron observes, confirms the historical fact 
(and this is one of the principal uses of old coins) that Edward IIT. 
in his struggle with France did all in his power to secure the alliance 
with Flanders, one important step towards his purpose being the 
making the coinage of England and Flanders international. Another 
interesting circumstance connected with these coins is that on one 
side of some of them isa ship with the King standing in it, crowned, 
and on the other side a legend or inscription round the margin, in 
Latin, taken from Luke iv., verse 30 :—“ JESUS AUTEM TRANSIENS 
PER MEDIUM ILLoRUM BAT.” [Jesus passing through the midst of 
them went his way.| The first gold nobles were issued soon after a 
1 See Vol. xxi., 121. 
