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116 G. C. BROOKE.
In his introduction to Hoveden's Chronicle (Rolls
Series, No. 51, p. Z), Stubbs says of this passage, which
appears to be an original statement, and not, like
most of the period 1148-69, copied from the Melrose
" The notices of the years 1148 to 1169
Chronicle :
which are neither taken directly from the chronicle of
Melrose, nor connected closely with the Becket context,
are very few, and some of them, I think, of very
questionable authenticity ... Of the striking of money
by Henry in 1149, called '
the duke's money ', and of
the appointment of Henry as justiciar to Stephen in
1153, it is impossible to say that they are false, but
equally impossible to say that they
degree probable."
are in the least
However, it has since become possible to attribute
some coins, I think with certainty, to the Duke Henry.
They have at one time been attributed to King Henry I,
an attribution inconsistent with finds of these coins
and their style, &c.; at another time to Henry, Earl
of Northumberland, who could not have struck coins
at Bristol and Hereford, at which mints some of these
coins were certainly struck; but their attribution to
Henry of Anjou is now generally accepted.
These coins are always of low weight, varying from
12^ to 17^, usually 15 or 16, grains, and of coarse work,
though usually
of better execution than those of his
mother, the Empress. They may be roughly divided
into two issues, (I) with profile bust, (II) with bust
full- face ;
these being subdivided into I a with reverse
of Stephen's first type [PI. VII. 11], I b similar reverse,
but variant with voided cross moline and annulets
inserted [Pl.VII. 12], I c with reverse similar to Henry I's
last type [PI. VII. 13] : the form of bust, and espe-