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as sharp as the day they were minted. They may have been part of 

 a lax forwarded to the royal treasury from the various mints when the 

 king- happened to be residing in Hampshire, or they may have be- 

 longed to the Bishop of Winchester, to whom at the time of their 

 deposit the locality belonged. Others again of Edward the Con- 

 fessor, including five different types, and one variation (which is by 

 some regarded as a distinctive type), formed a part of a hoard 

 of about two thousand silver pennies, which were discovered at 

 Chancton, in Sussex, in 1866, and which have been fully and 

 accurately described by B. V. Head, Esq. These also were for the 

 most part in good preservation, many apparently fresh from the 

 mint. Another hoard, of which full particulars have never been 

 divulged, was discovered in the city, in 1872. Probably it numbered 

 altogether more than seven thousand, chiefly of the reign of Edward 

 the Confessor. Of the entire number two thousand eight hundred 

 and twenty-nine passed through the hands of Mr. E. H. Willett, of 

 St. Martin's, Guernsey, and two thousand two hundred and thirty 

 were deciphered by him. Eight of these had been minted at 

 Cricklade, and were described by him in a paper in the Numismatic 

 Chronicle, vol. xvi., New Series. A silver penny, minted at Cricklade, 

 in the time of William I., was also discovered among many others 

 in 1828, in the Burnivale at Malmesbury, in preparing a site for 

 some new buildings. They lay beneath the foundation-stone (which 

 weighed over a ton) of a chapel erected by William the Conqueror 

 upon the spot where the hermitage of Meydulph had originally 

 stood. 



The foregoing account will sufficiently elucidate the following 

 catalogue of Cricklade pennies, which, although incomplete, includes 

 all that the writer has either been able to examine, or of which he 

 has succeeded in obtaining a detailed description. It will be found 

 that sixty-one are described, and a few others alluded to. 



CATALOGUE OF COINS 



MINTED AT CRICKLADE. 



N.B. — The writer desires gratefully to acknowledge the obligation 

 he is under to B. V. Head, Esq., of the British Museum ; to 



