'A Dissertation on an Ancient Jewel of the Anglo Saxons: read the 5th March 1752. By the Revd Mr Samuel Pegge.’ pp.339-43.
Reference code
SAL/10/10/065
Title
'A Dissertation on an Ancient Jewel of the Anglo Saxons: read the 5th March 1752. By the Revd Mr Samuel Pegge.’ pp.339-43.
Date
October 1751
5 March 1752
5 March 1752
Level of description
Item
Extent and format
5 pp
Scope and content
Dated October 1751; read 5 March 1752: Minute Book VII, fol.10 (SAL/02/007/014). Printed in Archaeologia, 1 (1770), 161-7.
Concerning a piece of gold then in the Bodleian Library (found in St Giles's field, Oxford, and previously owned by Sir John Holman, Bt.; see R.Plot, The Natural History of Oxford-shire (1677), 352, Tab.16, fig.5), supposedly associated with Edward the Confessor when touching for king's evil, considered by Pegge to be a Mercian jewel.
Concerning a piece of gold then in the Bodleian Library (found in St Giles's field, Oxford, and previously owned by Sir John Holman, Bt.; see R.Plot, The Natural History of Oxford-shire (1677), 352, Tab.16, fig.5), supposedly associated with Edward the Confessor when touching for king's evil, considered by Pegge to be a Mercian jewel.
Creator
Pegge, Samuel (1704-1796), clergyman and antiquary