C J^3 ] 
(g) This I read IFE MO MET A, or he Money, that 
is, Mony coyned at St, Ives in Huntingdoy^jhire. The H, 
as alfo n, both ufed for yJ/, are remarkable. Bouteroue, in 
his Difquifitions on the old French Monies, gives us fome 
Gallick Epitaphs from which he draws an Alphabet of the old 
Gauls : in that, H and H are ufed for M ; fo that poffibly 
the Britains might likewife ufe them : it is manifeft they are 
not Saxon Letters ; and I fee no Abfurdity to allow the Saxons 
to have borrowed them from the Britarns, and to have ufed 
them amongft their own Capitals. There is a Coyn in 
TaL 3. Cojn 14. of the CoUeftion prefixed before Mlf red's 
Life, which has two other of thofe Gallick Letters of which 
Boutercue has given us an Alphabet. The Coyn iSj 
o 
iSLF^ED + + 4- 
The c/5 and L are S and F in his Alphabet ; and I am apt to 
think, that that Inverfion of Letters in thefe Saxon Monies, 
as 114 for M, n for IT, t fo^^ took its rife from them ; for 
in this Alphabet we have A and v for /); c/^, 8, Z, for S : 
however, this will evince, in fome meafure, the Praftice of 
fuch Inverfions^which made fome Learned Men take them for 
Rmk, Gothic, or indeed for any Charafters with which they 
were little acquainted. 
( This and the Reverfe of the 1 1, are to be read alike, 
tho' they were coyned at different Places, as appears from the 
variety of the Letters. 
( / ) n which is ufed here for is frequently ufed in that 
CoUeftion o{ Saxon Coyns prefixed to Mlfred's Life. 
( k) This Got£ mone, or Gods Mony, was the Peter-Pence 
which was coUefted yearly, and fent to Ron^e. Ina, one of the 
Kings Mercians^ firftgave it: thence it was conftantly 
Zz paid 
