COMMUNICATIONS 
TO THE 
MONTHLY MEETINGS, 
1862 . 
March 4.—The Rev. J. Kenrick made some remarks on the Coins 
presented by Mr. Noble, and found in Pavement, near the end of All 
Saints Church. They are all of the age of Constantine and his family, 
two of Constans, the Emperor’s third son, two of Maguentius, who 
assumed the purple in 350, and put himself to death three years later 
at Lyons, after having been defeated by Constantins. The rest are all 
of Constantins, probably Flavius Constantins, son of Constantine. The 
legend Felix Temporum Reparatio, which appears upon them, seems 
to have reference to the re-union and re-organization of the empire 
effected by Constantine. It is often accompanied by the phcenix, a 
symbol of revival. 
W. Gray, Esq., F. R. A. S., F. G. S., then read a paper “ On the 
Present Appearance of the Planet Saturn.” 
April 1.—The Rev. J. Kenrick presented an impression, received 
from the Rev. W. V. Harcourt, of the Seal of the Priory of Augustinian 
Monks, commonly called Black Canons, at Drax, in the West Riding, 
in the Hundred of Barkston Ash, and near the confluence of the Aire 
and the Ouse. The lands of Drax, or as it is called in Domesday, Drac, 
formed part of the large possessions of a Saxon thane, named Merlesuen, 
which by the Conquest fell into the hands of Ralph de Paganel, a 
Norman Chief. From the Manor of Drax he made a grant of a site 
called Nesse, or Rednesse, to the church of St. German, now the Abbey 
Church of Selby. He also re-established and re-endowed in 1089 the 
Priory of the Holy Trinity in Micklegate, which had been in ruins 
since the Conquest, and among his gifts to it was the fishery of the vill 
