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Contributed by Georgiana S. Hurt, from a MS. of 

 John Reynolds. 



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fllSS HURT, to whom our Society is so much indebted 

 for permission to print the Presbyterian Classis Book 

 of Wirksworth, in the second volume of our Journals, 

 recently forwarded to me another small MS. book that belonged to 

 her uncle, the late Mr. Charles Hurt. It is a i2mo. book of 60 

 pages in a marbled-paper cover. On the inside of the last cover 

 is written : — 



" This book was written or rather transcribed by the Rev. — 

 Mason, of Winster, Derbyshire, and given to Charles Hurt, jun., 

 by Mr. Wolley, of Matlock, April, 1822. The Mr. Reynolds 

 mentioned in it was of Crich." 



The contents of this brief manuscript relate exclusively to "finds" 

 of Roman coins in Derbyshire, between the years 1748 and 1778, 

 as chronicled by that careful observer and local antiquary, Mr. John 

 Reynolds, of Plaistow, Crich. Adam Wolley's collections, now in 

 the British Museum, show how largely he was indebted to Reynolds' 

 labours. Add. MSS. 6701 is a volume exclusively compiled by 

 Reynolds, containing original church notes of the county, taken 

 about 1750. 



The special " finds " here detailed have been briefly referred to 

 by Lysons, in his Derbyshire volume, and subsequently copied 

 by Glover and other later writers. The particular description of 

 the coins, and the details of their discovery are, however, 



