Treasure-trove

Ou different occasions iu 1864 the Crown put in claims for treasure-trovè - a gold coin found at Long Crendon, in Buekinghamshire; sixty-two gold coins 'onnd in an earthen jar in a field at Stockerston, Leicestershiro; no lees than 6,000 silver pennies of the time of Henry III., found at Eccles, near Manchester; nul 760 silver coins earthcd lip heat Newark. The next following year gave the Crown a claim to 180 silver ooins of the rcigns of M&iy, Elizabeth, Jamos L, and Charles I., found at O-rantham, and to ü gold cross and chain brought to light at Castle Bailey, Clare, in Suffolk. The ycars 1866 md 1867 wéjfe marked, amoug other instances, by tlie fliiding of nearly 7,000 small gold and silver coins at Highbury, noar London ; eighty gtrintös concealed te tlio wall of an old house at East Parley, m :-:ir Christchurch, Hants; and 260 old silver ooins ina house at Liehfield. In other years there were 900 silver coins found at Cumberl'ord, in títaffordshire, and eleven rose nobles found in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey. 'I'liese sevcral instanoes of treasure-trove were settled in various ways. Some of the findings were re-; turned by the Crown to the finders; some were sold to the British Museum, in a manner to place an honorarium in the fmder's pocket; some were presented to museums, and the rnoney value given to the finders; some are retaiued by the Orown, as antiquarian curiosities ; wliile one has been hauded over to the