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VIII.—On a Hoard of Gold Nobles found at Bremeridge Farm, Westbury, Wilts

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In the early part of September 1877 there was found on Bremeridge farm, in the parish of Westbury, Wilts, belonging to Charles Paul Phipps, esq. of Chalcot, a hoard of 32 gold coins. They were found during repairs and improvements of the homestead, about a foot and a half below the surface, in the courtyard, piled one above another, without any appearance of a purse or box. The place of deposit would be indicated by a line producing the east end of the main building southwards to a distance of about 13 ft. from the wall of the present back kitchen.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1882

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page 137 note a Annals of the Coinage, 1817.

page 138 note a et franc was distinctly read on eight, but, instead of this part of the legend, fourteen at least have dux aqu or et aqvt, &c. either after or before D. Hyb, &C.

page 138 note b Leake's Hist. Ace. of English Money, 1745. Folkes's Table of English Gold Coins, Soc. Ant. London, 1763. Pegge's Remarks on the first Noble of Edward III. 1773, Archæologia, vol. in. Cuffs Note on some Gold Coins of Edward III. and Richard II. 1842, Numism. Chron. vol. v. is interesting in reference to these Bremeridge nobles.

As one of the many examples now happily existing of the influence of antiquarian research in improving the illustrations of educational books, it may be mentioned that there is a good engraving of a noble of Edward III. in The Student's Hume, 1859.

page 138 note c Sandford's Geneal. Hist., book III. c. iii, p. 157, note.

page 138 note d Ce fut seulement apres Charles V. que les armes de France furent regulièrement fixées a trois fleurs de lis : tandis que depuis Philippe le Hardi, qui le premier placa trois fleurs de lis sur son sceau [en 1285] (Nouveau Traité de Diplomatique, 1759, t. iv. p. 137), on les trouve tantôt sans nombre. Tantôt reduites á trois. Trésor de Numism. Hist. de l'Art Monetaire, 1846.

page 138 note e One has a, i. e. c, which may possibly be intended to denote Calais as the place of mintage. See Cuffs Note, &c. above cited.

page 139 note a In Humphreys's, Illustrations of Froissart, 1844–5, vol. i. pl. xv., vol. ii. pl. xxiiiGoogle Scholar. the illuminations are misrepresented, the bordure gules not being indicated all round the bends in the 2nd and 3rd quarters. In Geneal. Hist. des Mais. Souv. 1738, t. IV. 1. ii. c. i. art. 3. the coat is given correctly.

page 140 note a Folkes' Tables and Ruding's Annals above cited.

page 140 note b Stothard's Monumental Effigies, 1817, “The Black Prince.”

page 140 note e i. e. 3 times—sith is au Anglo-Saxon word.

page 140 note d Exodus, xv. 16Google Scholar, Vulgate. The Song of Moses, from which these words are taken, is appended to the Greek Psalter, Venice, 1864, p. 178. Iteration is much practised in the devotions of the Greek Church, particularly of select verses after the recitation of a psalm. Horologion, Venice, 1864, pp. 36, 42. Triple iteration is frequently prescribed, e. g. Κύριε ἐλέησον, ibid. p. 1. Δόξα ἐν ὑΨίστοις, ibid. p. 35, et alibi. Compare Utrecht Psalter, Autotype, Lond., pl. 5 a. Psalter of Robert de Lindesey, fourteenth century, Soc. Ant. Lond. MS. No. 59, f. 209.

page 140 note e Maundevile''s Travels, e. x.

page 141 note a At the conclusion of the reading of this Paper, A. W. Franks, Esq., Director, remarked that this text, “Jesus autem,” &c, is certainly found in treatises of alchemy, and on finger rings of the fourteenth century of Italian workmanship. R. S. Poole, Esq. of the British Museum, has kindly called my attention to “Botica de los Templarios,” the wooden front of a druggist shop, fourteenth century, formerly attached to a house of the Templars in Toledo, and now in the Architectural Hall of the Kensington Museum, having carved upon it the same text. In 1866 a gold ring was found about five inches deep in the ground at Montpensier in Auvergne by a shepherdess, inscribed “S. Georgius. Jesus autem transiens per medium illorum ibat.” This ring was exhibited by Mr. Hailstone before the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, as stated in The Academy, p. 518, June 8, 1878. It was afterwards submitted to Mr. Franks, and by him pronounced to be an interesting ring of Italian workmanship, fourteenth century, but not necessarily connected with Edward III. or the Black Prince.

page 141 note b Longman's, Life of Edward III. vol. i. p. 156Google Scholar.

page 141 note c Froissart's Chron.

page 142 note a Cf. Trésor de Numnism. above cited, p. 3. The agnel d'or as adopted by Edward III. or the Prince, had Edward inscribed under the feet of the lamb in place of lvd. rex.

page 142 note b Chron. Monast. de Melsa, vol. III. p. xxxiiGoogle Scholar. 45.

page 142 note c Chron. Angl. Mon. S. Alb. M R S.

page 142 note d Ad. Mm: Chron. E H S.

page 143 note a See Appendix B.

page 143 note b Froissart's Chron. and Walsingham's Hist. Angl.

page 143 note c Cf. Longman, , Life of Edward III. vol. i. pp. 124, 156Google Scholar.

page 144 note a Longman, , Life of Edward III. vol. i. p. 328Google Scholar, and vol. ii. p. 217.

page 144 note b The property at Bremeridge was not acquired by the convent of Edington till about a year after the decease of its founder; but he had been brought into near connexion with the locality from having the care and profits of the manor of “Westbury, &c. granted to him by Edward III. Hoare's Hist. of Wilts, Westbury, p. 59.

page 144 note c See Appendix B.

page 145 note a Geneal. Hist. des Mais. Sow. above cited. Hist. de Bourgogne, Dijon, 1739.

page 145 note b Pinkerton's Essay on Medals, vol. II. pl. ii.

page 145 note c “At the same time [1384], the burghers' old foe, Louis de Mâle, Count of Flanders, perished by an obscure death, probably in a brawl with the Duke of Berri. Flanders then fell into the hands of Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, who had it in right of Margaret his wife. He was wise and conciliator, restored the Flemish liberties, and was himself more a Fleming than a Lily prince. And thus the foundations of the great Burgundian dukedom, stretching in a curve from the sea round the whole northern and much of the eastern frontier of France, were securely laid.” Kitchin's, Hist. of France, 1873, vol. i. p. 482Google Scholar.

page 145 note d Hist. de Bourgogne, above cited, t. iii. p. 204. Murray's Handbook of France.

page 145 note e See Appendix B.

page 146 note a The holes now made by a shepherd in pitching a fold are about fifteen inches in firm greensward and about eighteen inches in looser soil.

page 146 note b The Milleres Tale, v. 3777Google Scholar.

page 146 note c Cal. I. P. M. vol. i. p. 57Google Scholar, vol. n. p. 277. Also Hoare's Hist. of Wilts, Westbury, pp. 58 to 62, above cited. Aubrey and Jackson's Wiltshire Collections, 1862.

page 147 note a The patronage of the vicarage of Bremhill with Highway and Foxham still belongs to the bishops of Salisbury.

page 147 note b It therefore seems natural to surmise that this hoard may be the amount of rent prepared by the tenant of Bremeridge for the rector and convent of Edington between 1384 and 1399.

page 147 note c Apparently that part of Dilton called then as now Dilton Marsh.

page 147 note d In Genesis, iii. 18Google Scholar, the words of the Vulgate, “Spinas et tribulos germinabit tibi,” are rendered by the Anglo-Saxon translator “Thomas and bremelas heo asprit the.” Bibl. tier Angelsächs. Prosa, Grein, Cassel und Goettingen, 1872.

page 148 note a Jones's, Domesday for Wilts, 1865, p. 38Google Scholar, and note.

page 148 note b In order to appreciate more fully the appropriateness of Edward III. representing himself as an armed figure in a ship, and also to account for the persistence of this device on the English coinage, it should be remembered that he was a great admiral as well as a great general, the army and navy not being distinct services, as in later times, that he expressly took the command off Sluys, displacing for the nonce the official admiral, Sir Thomas Beauchamp, that he was also a great promoter of commerce, especially of the Flemish trade in wool. The form of the ship is well illustrated by comparison with the illuminations of the Froissart MSS. with the seal of Tenterden, of which there is an impression in the Architectural Museum, Tufton Street, Westminster.