ΤΟ AQUILLA SMITH, M. D., T. C. D. VICE-PRESIDENT AND FELLOW OF THE KING AND QUEEN'S COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, IRELAND, M.R.I.A., EXAMINER IN MATERIA MEDICA, PHARMACY, AND MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE IN THE QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY. MY DEAR SIR, In dedicating to you this Second Volume of the Olla Podrida, I avail myself of the opportunity more fully to acknowledge the deep obligations which both publications are under to your unrivalled pencil and not less unequalled kindness, as also, in common with all numismatists, my deep admiration of the works you have published on Irish Coinages, with our hope that much will yet give more: and, though last not least, I would further express the sincere personal regard which all those feel who have the pleasure of being included in the circle of your friends. Believe me to remain, My dear Sir, Yours truly, RICHARD SAINTHILL. Cork, 1st September, 1846. PREFACE. IN the series of the Mint of Exeter from Alfred to Edward the First, published in my Olla Podrida, there were three reigns, Eadweard the Elder, Eadweard the Martyr, and Henry the First, certain blanks; and a fourth, Eadvvig, doubtful. Anxious to fill up these chasms, and place Exeter at least on an equality with any mint in the kingdom, I have continued my researches, and now present to numismatists what may certainly be considered a large additional number of coins of the Devonshire mints, more particularly of Exeter. Among the latter are pennies of Eadvvig and Eadweard the Martyr: the former from the collection of James D. Cuffe, Esq., the latter from the Royal Cabinet of Stockholm. Through the friendly kindness and powerful influence of J. B. Bergne, Esq. I was enabled to open a communication with Professor Hildebrand, who has charge of the royal collection at Stockholm, and with Professor Thomsen, who has a similar trust at Copenhagen, requesting information of such coins of Devonshire as were in the royal cabinets, and I have to express how much I feel indebted to both those gentlemen for the lists they sent me of all that are in these northern museums; and the number at Stockholm is truly surprising, fully confirming, if confirmation was necessary, how liberally, in the good old times, the Danes and their neighbours helped themselves to (in their opinion) the superfluous wealth of England. I have further to thank Commander Thomsen, of the Danish navy, who, in his brother's absence, continued our correspondence, and Ludvig Loessóe, Esq. of the Castle of Rosenborg (Rosenborg Slot), Copenhagen, who accompanied Professor Thomsen's list with 34 facsimiles of the coins in some kind of metal (staniol); and I have similar thanks to return to Mr. Hildebrand for impressions, of the same kind, of such coins in the Swedish collection as I wished to have engraved. It is to be regretted that this gentleman's public duties delay the publication of his work on the Saxon coins which are in the northern cabinets. When it does appear I have no doubt it will afford much useful information. I have also to return many thanks to G. Gordon, Esq. Acting Chargé d'Affaires for Her Majesty at Copenhagen. As this publication is even of a more miscellaneous character than its parent, the first volume, I shall not trouble my readers with any remarks on the different subjects submitted to their consideration, having endeavoured to make each paper tell its own tale and speak for itself. I have only to hope that, imperfect as it necessarily must be, it may incite other collectors, with |