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gold and silver coins, nobles, angels, and groats, 
during the reigns of our Edwards and Henrys, till 
the time of Queen Mary, when the custom of 
eoining in country mints ceased. During the 
troubles of the civil war it was found convenient 
to revive the practice, and accordingly among the 
pieces of necessity of that time we have some which 
were struck at Exeter and Bristol from 1642 to 
1645, when those places held out for the king, but 
no such pieces are known to have issued from any 
town in this county. 
We now proceed to give the list of inscriptions, 
illustrated by two plates. All the engravings in 
them are from Somersetshire coins.. Where it was 
not possible to obtain a drawing of a Somersetshire 
specimen, it has been thought suflicient to refer to 
the plates in Ruding’s Annals of the Coinage, where 
the type appears exemplified by a coin of some 
other county. 
