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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1772 edition. Excerpt: ...the proper badge of St. Peter, and are accordingly often placed on the York coins, in later ages (1). The apostle himself is also frequently called by the name of Claviger (2). St. Paul, I am persuaded nevertheless, has no connection or concern with these coins: How then, you will say, comes the sword there? Mr. Thoresoy thinks it was to distinguish the monies of the present archbishop from those of his predecessors. But perhaps it may be an allusion to those prophetical words of our Saviour to this apostle, on his wounding one of the servants of the high priest, They that take the Jword JhaJ/ peri/h with the sword, Matth. xxvi. 52. for it appears from John xviii. 10. that Peter was the person that inflicted the wound; and it is possible that in these very illiterate ages, the text might be understood of St. Peter personally and according to the letter, though all that was meant was, that the death of such persons ihould be violent, the sword, in a common way, being an instrument of violence; vide Schotti Adagia (3). But I rather think this device refers to the power of the sword, supposed in these times to have been conferred on St. Peter, and his successors, the Popes of Rome, from whence we hear so much of the sword of St. Peter (4), Let the learned judge. (1) Tables of the Antiquarian Society. (2) Du Fresne, Gloss, in r. Claviger. (3) But see a disferent interpretation in Grotius, who takes it not generally, but applies it to the cafe of our Saviour and the Jews. (4) Lord Ljttelton't Life of K. Hen. II. Vol. IV. p. 235. 313. There There are two coins in Sir A. Fountaine, Tab. VIII. which lie gives to Eric, whom he represents as king of the East: Angles, and successor of Guthrum; but as there is a sword across the field of the obverse, ...

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