Excerpt from Stafford in Olden Times: Being a Reprint of Articles Published in the Staffordshire Advertiser, With Illustrations

The article with which we have been favoured by the venerable Dr. Hildebrand, of Stockholm, Antiquary to the King of Sweden, on the Stafford Mint in anglo-saxon and anglo-norman times embodies informa tion hitherto known only to a very small circle of numismatists. We have also to acknowledge a valuable communication on the same subject from Dr. L. Milller, Director of the Royal Collections of Coins at Copenhagen; while we are indebted to Professor Oscar Montelius, of the National Museum at Stockholm, for impressions of the anglo-saxon coins struck at the Stafford Mint. These coins are now for the first 'time engraved, and we believe we are correct in stating that nearly the whole of the informa tion respecting the Stafford Mint is now for the first time published in English. Mr. W. H. Weldon, Windsor Herald and Registrar of the College of Arms, and Mr. H. Sydney Grazebrook, of Chiswick, one of the trustees of the William Salt Library, have obliged us with notes on the Borough Arms and Seals. We have also drawn upon the resources of the British Museum and the William Salt Library, and have made many extracts from the archives of the Corporation of Stafford, the registers of Parish Churches, the earlier volumes of the S/afirdrbz're Aa'verlz'ser, and several private Collections. We are indebted to Mr. Thomas Salt, m.p., for the loan of the Collections made by the late Rev. Joseph Ellerton, vicar of Baswich; and Mr. William Jones, senior magistrate of Stafford, kindly placed at our disposal a large accumulation of local notes and manuscripts which represent the intelligent and persevering labours of many years. We have also to acknowledge much courteous assistance from the learned curator of the William Salt Library, Mr. T. J. De Mazzinghi, m.a.

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