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IX. M Account offome Roman Coyn$ydund at Cliftoit 
near Ediington in Yorkfhire, % Mr Ralph 
Thoresby, (^. S. 
I Take my felf obliged to give you an account of the 
difcovery of fome Roman Coins, lately found at Clifton^ 
near EdUngtoH^ the Seat of the Honoured and Obliging 
R^heH Molefworth Efq^ from whom I have received a No- 
ble Prefent of them 5 which is the more valuable, becaufe 
by his Ingenuity they are fo artificially cleared from the 
Ruft they had contrafted by lying fo many Centuries in 
the Earth, that they appear little inferiour to what they 
were when firft Minted : They were dug up at the Eaft 
Entrance of CHpon (a Village on the Cliff of the Hill) 
three miles from Doncajicry the Roma?$ Damim^ where the 
^t^fe^m Equitum Cr'ifpiammm refided, and one from Cuns* 
brought or ConingsbHrgh^ an Ancient Seat of the Kings du- 
ring the Saxon Heptarchy, now belonging to Mr Cook of 
Norfolk* They were found fo near a Highway, that the 
Cart-tracks had worn the Earth off the top of the Vru^ 
which a Labourer of Mr Mo lefmrth's (truck his Pick- Ax 
into, before he was aware of it : Upon another fearch, 
they found another X^eca Nummma^ both tull of Copper 
Coin $ the hafte and fcramble of the Workmen to get the 
fuppofed Booty ( which they hoped might prove as valu- 
able as the Broad Gold found ac Kigbley ) made them 
break in pieces both the Urns, which were large and en- 
tire 5 the bigger of them might contain tvsro gallons ; By 
the fragments of them they appear to have been of a 
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