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- 1987 (Creation)
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2 items, paper
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Two letters from Peter Seaby:
(a) manuscript, single page (recto only), dated 31 August 1987, as cover for "an unsolicited paper" [on Henry I] intended for a YNS publication. He says that Michael Metcalf has agreed to act as referee but that also suggested that PJS send the article to IS for comment.
(b) manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated 17 September 1987, thanking IS for his comments on the Henry I paper, noting that the Carlisle mint was probably established to work silver from the mines at Alston, and wondering whether there are grounds for believing that "a mint could not have been active in 1124". There is discussion of the lettering in which PJS sketches out a scheme for the pattern across types I-XV for series III-VII. He says that he will give some thought to the abbreviation/contraction of the king's name but doubts that there will be space to include a full list of moneyers under Henry I.