This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: ...account, and because the coin is fully equal in execution to the beautiful Dorovernis triens, and vastly superior to any production of the contemporary Merovingian mints, I have always entertained a firm conviction of its English origin. Knowing nothing of any bishop to whom it could be appropriated, except Liudhard, the chaplain of Queen Bertha, it seemed natural to connect it with him, and to suppose the first p a mistake for D; but when I found in Thoms' additions to Ven. Baeda's Martyrology the name Liphardus, the balance of testimony of the coin seemed to outweigh that of Ven. Baeda. I was not then aware of the existence of any record of a distinct Liphardus, although it had been for many years under my hand. Now that I have found it, I have no occasion to suppose an error, neither in the legend of the coin, nor in Ven. Baeda's reading. In Britannia Sancta (London, 1745), and A Memorial of Ancient British Piety, or a British Martyrology (London 1761), works I have constantly used for many years, I find that the feast of S. Lifard or Liphard was kept in the diocese of Cambrai on the 4th February, whilst the memory of S. Liudhard was associated with that of the first Christian king of Kent, on the 24th of the same month, in the church of Canterbury. The names are indeed distinct. In the ordinary old English form the first element of each respectively would be Leod, Leof; and these would dialectically vary Liod, Liud, Liut, --Liob, Liub, Liup. The second element, heard, is the same in each. For full info1mation respecting S. Lifford I referred to the Bollandist Acta Sanctorum, vol. iii. The legend there given is derived from a MS. which was in the hands of Nicholas Belfort, a Canon Regular of the monastery of S. John Baptist des Vignes, near Soissons, abou...