To the Rev. John Price, late Keeper of the Bodleian Library, I should have been highly gratified to have returned my thanks in this manner for innumerable kind atten tions, from my earliest researches, for various purposes, in that rich depository, even to the latest hour of his life; but death has unhappily deprived me of that gratification.

From repeated examinations of Mr. Southgate's select Cabinet of English Coins, which was ever most unrestrainedly open to my inspection, I first derived a practical knowledge of the various subjects of this work. His entertaining and instructive conversations led me to study them historically; and by his encouragement I was induced to prepare my collee tions for the publick eye. Had his valuable life been spared, they would have been rendered much more perfect than I fear they will now be found.

The memory of Richard Gough, Esq., must be dear to every lover of literature, and of our national antiquities. It has been eminently endeared to me by uninterrupted acts of friendship from the first moment of my acquaintance with him. To him I am indebted for the most liberal use of the materials, both printed and manuscript, which his valuable library afforded; and for the gift of various books relating to the subject of my inquiries, either manuscript, or enriched with MS notes by some of the most eminent of our Numis matic Antiquaries.

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