Sterl/tfg mffHy, Fehot or Feoh, is a commoti Word for Mony. 
Sr. Mark xii. 41. }>a fxv re JPaelenS onScn >^ne toUrceamol, ^ 
Sereah hu 'f pole hypa peoh^ Ihenfet Jejiu over againft the Trea- 
Jury, and faw the People put in Mony. 
(c) LAND yAfEHO; This was coynedin Memory of 
a Land Tax, raifed by JE^thelJlan, to fupporc his Wars againft 
the Danes and Scots ; againft whom, efpecially the Scots, he 
was always viftorious. Our Writers {Ingulph. Hifi. Croyland, 
p. i9 ) fay that he killed Conftantine King of the Scots, with 
five more Kings at the fame time; but the Chronicle of Matl^ 
rofe, written by the Abbot of Dundrainand, a Scottijh man, 
fays only, Regem Scottorum Con{\:dintin\xm pr£lh vicity^fu. 
gavit; (ad Jn. 926. p. 147.) And this is the only ^the/ftan 
who was ever Ki-ng of England : There was another JEthel- 
flan King of Kent only. Son to Egiert, who beat the Danes at 
Sandwich in Ann. Sji. 
The variety of Letters in thefe Reverfes is remarkable : 
The laft Word in thefe two Reverfes is manifeftly to be read 
alike, yet the form of the Letters is vaftly different. This va- 
riety arofe from the multitude of Mints, which did not all tye 
themfelves up to one Stamp, nor to the fame Letters. 
A R E M C^) This I fliould read REgta Monet a, to di- 
Ji^ ftinguilh it from the Bifhops or Ahhots, for it was 
O NE TA. probably coyned at Canterbury ^ A, I take to be a 
Mint- matters Mark. 
(e ) Tho' thefe Coyns, as far as lean judge, are as good 
Silver as any current with us, if not better ; yet fince what 
Alloy is in them is of Brafs, I am apt to think, that the acid 
Steams in alongferies of Ages arifing from the Humane Bo- 
dies, might corrode fo far into the Metal, as to raife fome lit- 
tle Verdigreafe upon the Surface of the Coyns 5 to which chat 
Greennefs is to be imputed. 
(/) Probably this Alkricu4 was a Nobleman, and they 
might have had the "^us moneta as well as B/Jhops and Ahhcts ; 
but 1 muft confefs I cannot make that out clearly. H be- 
/ore G is an ufual Tranfpofition ;fo HClotharius, HJ^iidowkus. 
This 
