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Another evidence that the Britons, 

 were poflefled of an alphabet before 

 the arrival of the Saxons, is in the in- 

 , fcriptions on Britifh coins, ftruck fome 

 centuries previous to that time. Dr. 

 Stukeley, has favoured the world with 

 twenty three plates of impreffions, 

 from the ancient coins of the Welfh 

 Kings, and amongft them of a coin of 

 Bleiddyd Blatos, or Bladud, King of 



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Britain, about nine hundred years before 

 Chrift. This is now lodged in the Cot- 

 tonian library ; and was one that Cam- 

 denj owned he could make nothing of.- 

 There are others of Manogan, who 

 reigned about 130 years before the 

 fh Chriftian aera ; of Cynvelyn or Cuno- 

 belin, King of the Caflivelauni, during 

 whofe reign Chrift was born ; of Meu- 

 rig, or Marius Rex, and his fon Coel 

 Rex, who flourifhed about the year 

 127, 



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