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collection of Anglo-Saxon money at one particular 
period, during the reigns ofthose monarchs who were 
of Danish origin, and of those upon whom the Dane- 
geld was levied, is conveyed in the comparative 
statement made by M. Hildebrand of the number 
of coins of Ethelred II, Canute, and Harold I, in 
the British Museum and in the cabinet of the King 
of Sweden. Of Ethelred II, (according to M. Hilde- 
brand)theBritish Museum has 144 pieces, the cabinet 
ofthe King of Sweden 2254 ; of Canute, the British 
Museum has 380, the cabinet of the King of Sweden 
1396; of Harold I, the British Museum 48, the 
cabinet of the King of Sweden 237. The relative 
numbers are very different in the time of the Con- 
fessor: of this king the British Museum contains 
450 specimens, the Swedish cabinet 273. 
This statement may serve as an illustration of the 
extent to which our forefathers were plundered in 
the 10th and 11th centuries. 
We cannot discover that coins were struck in 
this county after the conquest at any other towns 
than Bath, Ilchester, and Taunton. There is indeed 
a charter of the Empress Maud, quoted by Hearne, 
in which allusion is made to a mint at Glastonbury, 
granted with other privileges to Henry, prelate of 
the church there ;* butthename of Glastonbury on 
any coin yet remains to be discovered. Bath and 
Taunton are mentioned as places of mintage in 
* See Ruding’s Annals of the Coinage. 
