Item 1972/1 - Two letters from Hugh Pagan

2 items, paper

Two letters from Hugh Pagan:
(a) typescript, one folio (recto & verso), dated 29 December 1972, returning Philip Grierson's paper and commenting upon the meaning of the term "dandyprats" in 1530 as either half-harps or pre-1505 half-groats (Irish or English clipped) and the significance of the expression "mony or this mony" [sic]. He also says that "if a profile issue was contemplated as early as Feb/Mar 1504 [... it ...] could be associated with Bruchsal". He concludes by reminding IS that the application for a British Academy grant for the CEB volume needs to be in by the end of January.
(b) typescript, one folio (recto & verso), undated but datable to c.1972 on the basis on internal evidence. HEP advises IS that he has sent his and John Murray's paper on Scottish copper coinage to press "to fill out the 1972 BNJ" after calculating the BNJ page length of Mavis Mate's paper. He explains the special treatment accorded to Mate – i.e. leaving her three blank pages to fill in at proof stage – to enable him to get the material to press. The letter appears to conclude at this point, but there is "PTO" in the bottom margin and on the verso an excerpt from E. S. de Beer's edition of The diary of John Evelyn from 1683 in reference to "angel gold" that was "stamp'd with the Agnus Dei, & coyn'd at the time of the holy-War".

JCPP/Stewartby/1/1/GRIERSON/1972/1