Letter from Roger Gale, Scruton, to an unidentified recipient,1743/4 January 27 : autograph manuscript signed.

Discussing coins found near Cottenham; saying "The Coins you mention to be found near Cottenham are not worth enquiring after, their finds producing nothing but vulgar ordinary stuff, made much worse by their bad preservation, occasioned and increased by their lying so many years in the moist soil of the Fen which must rust and corrode them. if there were any of them sold for 12d a piece, they must have been of a better sort, or have met with an ignorant purchaser. Dr. Stukeley and myself traced a great deal of the old walls from the Castle at Cambridge quite to Pythagoras's School, and of the way and other works of the Romans from Water Beach over Cottenham Fen towards Audrey bridge, seven or 8 years ago, upon which the Doctors fruitfull invention founded so severall conjectures according to his notions and fancy. I have had an opportunity of sending this morning a little box with English coins in it to you by a person going to Stanford, and directed to be left with Dr. Stukeley, from whom you will get it conveyed to Huntingdon with no great difficulty. I wish there had been more, and better worth your acceptance. I never endeavored to make a Collection of that sort, therefore, parted with all such as came in my way to any friend that desired them, which is the reason of my great poverty. I shall be glad to hear of there safe arrival."