Enfield Church (Vol. viii., p. 352.).—Your correspondent is quite wrong as to the date of this building. The nave is separated from the north and south aisles by an arcade of five arches of undoubted Middle Pointed work; not later than the beginning of the fourteenth century, to which date also belongs the east window of the chancel: the "clere-story," which has the device of a rose and wing (not ring), is probably of the date assigned to the whole church by your correspondent. The south aisle was much altered about forty years ago, the windows of which are a bad imitation of those in the north aisle. In making alterations to the chancel in 1852 the piscina, and a portion of the sedilia, a drawing of which is given in The Builder, vol. x. p. 797., with a window over, were brought to light. They belong to the First Pointed period, or about the latter part of the twelfth century; clearly showing that a portion, at least, of the church is of the last-mentioned date.
I have always understood that the wing and rose, on the walls of the clere-story, was the cognizance of Abbot Wingrose of Waltham.
Jas. P. St. Aubyn.
Coin of Carausius (Vol. ix., p. 148).—C. G. is right in considering his coin as of Carausius, who reigned from 1040 to 1046 A.U.C. I would suggest P. F. for Pius Felix, as preferable to P. P.
The dates will show that the letters MLXXI have nothing to do with the year 1071. On other coins of Carausius we find the signs ML, Moneta Londinensis, or Moneta Londini (percussa); and MSL, Moneta signata Londini. These interpretations are justified by analogy with the Roman coins, and by the signs on coins of Constantine, MSL, which must be interpreted as on the coins of Carausius, MLON, and MLN, Moneta Londini (percussa). The abbreviation LN for LON is analogous to RV for Ravenna, which is undoubted.
As for the letters XXI, they occur very frequently, either alone or with others, on coins of Aurelian and his successors. They have evidently relation to the value of the coin, and are replaced by the Greek letters ΚΑ, which have the same numerical value, on coins of Diocletian, &c. As analogous signs, I may quote LXXII and OB, the corresponding Greek letters, on amei respectively of Constantine and Valentinian, showing the ameus = 1⁄72 of a pound; LX on silver coins of Constantius = 1⁄60 of a pound; and XCVI on denarii of Diocletian = 1⁄96 of a pound.
It has not yet been explained, however, in what relation these copper coins stood to the others, so as to justify the XXI, unless Mommsen may have done so in a book I have not seen, Ueber den Verfall des Münzwesens in der Kaiserzeit, 1851. See for the particulars of the above-cited coins, Pinder and Friedländer's Beiträge zur Münzkunde, p. 17. and following.
W. H. Scott.
Torquay.
Society for Burning the Dead (Vol. ix., p. 76.).—