Discovery of ancient relics.
Maidment, James,1793-1879,former owner.StEdNL: L.C.1268(120)
Edinburgh : Printed for the Booksellers,
[1831]
The text begins: A full, true, and interesting account of that remarkable and important discovery made yesterday in taking down the old houses in the Castle-hill, when there was found a box containg several ancient coins, a massy gold ring, an old fashioned dirk, and a wonderful prophecy made in the year 1550, respecting great events which are to happen this present year.
Pasted beside the broadside is a newspaper cutting, from the 'Kentish chronicle', which describes the same discovery being made in Canterbury, Kent, in the same year.
In one column.
'Price one penny'.
Bound in a volume carrying the inscription 'This collection is understood to have been formed by the late James Maidment and it has been added to by me. John A. Fairley' on first fly-leaf.
Relics
Prophecies