A. D. 1066. 293 



coining money ; an important point in tbe progrefs of civilization, 

 which the Scandinavians had not attained in the tenth century *. Spe- 

 cimens of the coins of the various kingdoms in England, from the be- 

 ginning of the feventh century f , and alfo of the monarchs of all Eng- 

 land, are preferved in cabinets ; and engravings of them have been 

 repeatedly publiflied. 



No Scotti{h coins have hitherto been difcovered of any king preced- 

 ing Alexander I ; if thofe afcribed to him are indeed his; for the total 

 want of numbers and dates, renders the difcrimination of the antient 

 coins of kings of the fame name almofl impoflible. [See Anderfon^s Di- 

 plomata et Numifmata Scotice, tab. clvii, ivitb Rudd'wian^s judicious Preface, 



PP- 57' 97-] 



From the unqueftionable authority of Domefday book :j: the follow- 

 ing particulars are feleded, as illuftrative of the condition of fome of 

 the ports and trading towns, and as containing hints of the ftate of com- 

 merce in England, in the time of Edward the Confeifor. 



Dovere paid to the king and the earl £1^. The burgefTes were 

 bound to find twenty fliips, carrying twenty-one men each, for fifteen 

 days in a year ; and they were therefor exempted from fac and foe, and 

 were free from toll throughout all England. 



In the city of Cantuaria (Canterbury) the king had 51 burgeflcs pay- 

 ing rent or cuftoms (*■ gablum ), and 212 liable to fac and foe; and 

 three mills of 40 fhillings rent. 



The city of Roveceftre (Rochejler) paid 100 fhillings. 



The burgh of Sanwic (Sandwich) paid ^15, and rendered the fame 

 fervices to the king as Dover. 



In the burgh of Pevenfel (Pevenfey) there were 24 burgefles in the 

 king's demefne, who paid feveralfmall fums for rent, toll, port-dues, &c. 

 There were other burgefles fubje6t to the bifhops, the priefts, &c. 



The city of Cicefire (Chichejier) paid 100 fliillings, wanting one 

 penny. 



The burgh of Lewes paid £6 14: i ^ ; and the king had 1 27 burgeflTes 

 in his demefne, who colle6led 20 fliillings for marine fervice. 



* In the tenth century, when Hofkold bought king of Denmark to fuperintend his works in gold, 

 a beautiful female (lave at the great fair in Brcn- and be the keeper of his mone}', and chief banker, 

 ncyar near Gothenburg, he iveigh^d three marks or money-changer (' trapezita'}. He h'ved feven 

 of filvet, which he paid for her to Gilli, a rich years in Denmark, and very probably coined mo- 

 merchant of Rufria. \_LaxJicla faga, AIS. in mufeo ney there. \_M. Paris, Vit. alhat. p. 59.] 

 Brit. Cat. Ayfc. 4861 ; unc of the Icelandic manu- f Camden \^Remains p. 181, ed. 16J7] fays, 

 feripts prcfented ly Sir JoftphBanis.^ he had feen a coin of Ethelbcrc, the firll Chrilliau 



The piece marked with three crowns, and king of Kent, who died in the year 616. It 



afcribed to Olaf, king of Sweden about the year might however belong to one of his fuccellor* of 



800, \_Br£nm,-i Thefaur. numm. SucG-Goth. tab. ij the fame name. 



is of very doubtful age. Tiie earlieft undoubted J It was called the looh of Winchejler {^ "VJ^ex 



Swedifh coins are of the twelfth century. About ' de Wintoiiia') by the compilers of it: but 



the beginning of that century Anketll, a very ZJowf/iAzji j^co^- has afterwards become the cltablill'.- 



ingenious Englifh goldfmith, was inTJted by tlic ed name. 



