16 SOMERSETSHIRE COINS. 
likewise the moneyer’s name and designation; we 
read on one BIORHTVLF MON BAT LEIVITATI, 
on the other two BYRHTELM MO LANLPORT, 
and VVVNSILE MO LONLPORT.* 
There are very few coins with the names of towns 
inscribed upon them during the reigns of Edmund, 
Edred and Edwy ; we have not been able to discover 
a single Somersetshire specimen. In the time of 
Edgar, Bath appears againt, and Ilchester for the 
first time; upon both of these coins the King’s 
title is “ Rex Anglorum:” we know that this title 
had been adopted before by his predecessors as early 
asthe reign of Edward the Elder,+ but it does not 
appear tillnow upon any coin. We are told that 
Edgar in the year 973 was consecrated with great 
ceremony at Bath, and shortly after went up the 
Dee to Chester, where he was met by eight of the 
petty kings of Scotland, Britain, and Wales, who 
came to do him homage, and rowed his vessel up 
the river while he sat at the helm; and that upon 
that occasion he said that henceforward his suc- 
cessors might boast that they were indeed kings of 
the Angli. Without supposing these coins to be 
commemorative either of the coronation, or the 
triumphal approach to Chester, it is probable that 
they were subsequent to those events, and that the 
title “ Rex Anglorum,” which had been used before, 
* See fig. 2, the Bath coin is engraved in Ruding, Plate XVIII, No. 24. 
rt See fig. 3. } See Cod. Dipl. (Evi. Sax. 
