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Sunday. And if the Sunday of the full moon may be signified by the first 

 Sunday after the full moon, then the full moon of March 2], may be signi- 

 fied by the full moon next after March 21. 3. I prove that my two observa- 

 tions are sufficient to reconcile the rule and the table ; because I have drawn up 

 a table to find Easter for ever, by the rule understood according to those ob- 

 servations, and in the plain and obvious sense in all other respects ; and on 

 comparing, have found it to agree in every particular with the table for the 

 same purpose in the Common Prayer Book ; and any body else may make the 

 same trial. 



Concerning some Norman Coins found at York. By Mr. Ralph Thoresby. 



N°303, p. 2127. 



A gentleman designing to build on a piece of ground, he had bought in 

 High Ousegate, York, had labourers to remove the rubbish of a former 

 house; which, with about 30 more, were burnt down April 3, 1694. In 

 digging below the foundations of the former house, they discovered at a con- 

 siderable depth the foundations of an older fabric, very probably unknown to 

 the builders of the later house. These lower foundations were very well sup- 

 ported at several angles with good oak piles, some of which were still sound ; 

 besides these piles, there were several large timber trees, that lay athwart, to 

 make the stronger foundation: between the head of two piles in this lower 

 foundation, the workmen found a small decayed oaken box, in which had been 

 hoarded about 200 or 250 Norman coins; but age and the moisture of the 

 place had so defaced them, that little more than 100 of them could be pre- 

 served. I had the perusal of about half that number, which proved the noblest 

 stock that ever I saw, or indeed heard of, of William the Conqueror's coins ; 

 only 2 or 3 being of any other prince: those, though later in time, are more 

 rare in value than many of the Roman and Saxon coins : these lower foun- 

 dations dso very well answer the account we have of the timber buildings 

 in those ages. 



The coins are very much alike; the king is represented full-faced, with a 

 crown and lables, but neither sceptre, cross, nor star, as in other monies of his 

 that I had before; most of them are inscribed willemv rex, which some have 

 mistaken for William the 2d, but by the declining of the strokes it appears to 

 be designed for v, as I have one with the s after the v and before rex. By this 

 accident there appears greater variety than ever was known before of the Con- 

 queror's money; I have of these sorts, willemv rex. willemvs rex. wil- 

 lemv rex. i. (which is not to be reckoned a numeral letter, it being improper 

 to pretend a distinction when there was none of the name before, but for part 



