found at Bremeridge 'Farm, Westbury, Wilts. 



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that there was great difficulty in the early issues of gold coinage 

 about adjusting its relations to silver, and the relations which existed 

 in the fourteenth century are now entirely changed. The bullion 

 value of each of the Bremeridge nobles is now about 20<s. The 

 term noble as money of account in the sense of 65.^8^. is still used 

 in reference to the distribution of a charity founded in 1670 at the 

 neighbouring town of Warminster. 



The type of an armed figure in a ship, with the text from St. 

 Luke, on the reverse, devised in commemoration of the great naval 

 victory off Sluys, A.D. 1340, was continued in successive reigns till 

 the time of Henry VI., and traces of it are found still later. 1 



In the better specimens the armour of the figure in the ship in- 

 dicates a resemblance to the chain gorget, &c, worn in the latter 

 part of the fourteenth century. 2 



The popular use of the above-quoted text of St. Luke as a pious 

 ejaculation is noted by the contemporary Sir John Maundeville, who 

 set forth on his travels in 1322, and died at Liege in 1371. 



His words are : — 



" And an half myle fro Nazarethe, is the Lepe of oure Lord : for the Jewes 

 ladden him upon an highe Eoche, for to make him lepe doun, and have slay 11 

 him : but Jesu passed amonges hem, and lepte upon another Eoche ; and zit ben 

 the Steppes of his Feet sene in the Eoche, where he allyghte, And therfore seyn 

 sum men, when thei dreden hem of Thefes on ony Weye, or of Enemyes ; Jesus 

 autem transiens per medium illorum ibat; that is to seyne, Jesus for soothe 

 passynge be the myddes of hem, he wente : in tokene and mynde, that oure Lord 

 passed tborghe out the Jewes Crueltee and scaped safly fro hem ; so surely mo we 

 men passen the perile of Thefes. And than sey Men 2 vers of the Psautre, 3 

 Sithes : * Irruat super eos formido Sf pavor, in magnitudine JBrachii tui f 

 Domine. Fiant immobiles, quasi Lapis, donee pertranseat populus tuus, 

 Domine ; donee pertranseat populus tuus iste, quern possedisti. f 



"And thanne may men passe with outen perile." J 



1 Folke's "Tables" and Euding's " Annals," above cited. 

 2 Stothard's "Monumental Effigies," 1817, "The Black Prince." 



* i.e., S times— sith is an Anglo-Saxon word, 

 t " Exodus," xv., 16, Vulgate. The " Song of Moses," from which these -words are taken, is ap- 

 pended to the " Greek Psalter," Venice, 1864, p 178. Iteration's much practised in the devotions 

 of the Greek Church, particularly of select verses after the recitation of a psalm. '• Horologion,'' 

 Venice, 1864, pp. 36, 42. Triple iteration is frequently prescribed, e.g., Kvpie eXerjcrov ibid., p. 1* 

 A6£a iv v-^iaroLSf ibid , p. 35, et alibi. Compare "Utrecht Psalter," Autotype, Lond., pi. 5 a. 

 "Psalter of Robert deLindesey," fourteenth century, Soc. Ant, Lond. MS. No. 59, f. 209. 

 t " Maundevile's Travels," c. x. 



