Notes and Queries, Number 46, September 14, 1850 by Various
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Howell's _State Trials_, i. 1315; Camden's _Annals_; Naunton's
_Fragmenta Regalia_; Lloyd's _State Worthies_; Nash's _Worcestershire_; Strype's _Ecclesiastical Memorials_, iii. 297.; Strype's _Annals_, iii. 337, 398-404.; _Stradling Letters_, 48-50.; Nare's _Life of Lord Burghley_, iii. 407.; _Fourth Report of Deputy Keeper of Public Records_, Appendix, ii. 281. Dean Swift, in his _Introduction to Polite Conversation_, says,-- "Sir John Perrot was the first man of quality whom I find upon the record to have sworn by _God's wounds_. He lived in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and was supposed to be a natural son of Henry VIII., who might also have been his instructor." C.H. COOPER Cambridge, August 31. 1850. _Coins of Constantius II._--The coins of this prince are, from their titles being identical with those of his cousin, very difficult to be distinguished. _My_ only guide is the portrait. Gallus died at twenty-nine; and we may suppose that his coins would present a more youthful portrait than Constantius II. The face of Constantius is long and thin, and is distinguished by the royal diadem. The youthful head resembling Constantius the Great with the laurel crown, _Rev_. Two military figures standing, with spears and bucklers, between them two standards, _Ex._ S M N B., I have arranged in my cabinet, how far rightly I know not, as that of Gallus. E.S.T. |
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