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the Koyal Society, and died in the same year, April 20th, at the 
early age of thirty-t^o. Mr. Goodricke’s home was with his 
mother in Lendal. 
IMaech 3.—The Eey. J. Kexeick read a notice of some silver 
coins presented to the Society. The first of them is a penny of 
Edward the Confessor, found on Heslington Field. It has on the 
obverse the head of the King in profile, with the legend Aedwaed 
Kex. On the reverse Ulecetel ox Eoeei. The name of this 
moneyer does not occur in this form in Mr. Davies’s list, given in 
his paper, p. 210 of the volume of oiu* Proceedings, but the names 
IJlfcutel and XJlccetel, given by him, are probably the same. The 
name of the East Anglian chief who fought so valiantly against the 
Danes in A. d. 1004 is variously spelt IIKketel and IJlfcytel by the 
chroniclers. The name written as on our coin occurs on those of 
Harold II., and again on the coins of the Conqueror, found in 1845 
at the corner of Coney-street, and what was then known as lubber- 
gate. Probably the same name should be read on an imperfect 
coin of Stephen, found at Watford. 
All the rest of the coins belong to the class which have been called 
‘^Counterfeit Sterlings”^'—money coined in foreign mints, in 
imitation of genuine English silver pennies, but of inferior value 
to our currency. That they were meant to impose on the English 
appears from the image on the obverse being a manifest copy of that 
of our Edwards, and though the superscriptions are those of the 
Dukes and Counts by whom they were issued, there would not be 
many, in an unlettered age, who could read them. They were all 
of Princes of States in the Low Countries. Between these States and 
the English there had long been great commercial intercoiu’se. 
Them manufacturers were supplied with wool by the English. The 
Edwards endeavoured by law to prevent the exportation of this 
article, but at the same time invited the foreign manufactimer to 
transfer his industry to England. Political circumstances conspired 
to increase the intercoimse of England and the Low Countries under 
the Edwards. John II., Duke of Brabant, married a daughter of 
Edward I.; a Count of Hainault another daughter; the first wife 
of Edward III. was Philippa of Hainault. These petty princes 
seem to have made a profitable trade by coining below the standards 
of theii’ neighboims in Germany, Prance, and England. The 
Sovereigns of these countries were not scrupulous about robbing 
* Hawkins in Hum, Chron., xiu. 86. 
